How to record keys pressed?

Question

Essentially I want to record every key press (including keydown/keyup and mouse clicks) and when they occurred so that I can create a macro out of them.

I found a ton of stuff about key presses and WinForms or WPF, but I don't really need a GUI, I just want to dump it out to the console after I'm done processing it.

So how can I record all key presses, even when my console window doesn't have focus?

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Sample output:

Send {q down}
Sleep 98
Send {q up}
Sleep 4
Send {f down}
Sleep 102
Send {f up}
Sleep 43
Send {a down}
Sleep 26
Send {s down}
Sleep 111
Send {a up}
Sleep 18
Send {s up}
Sleep 17
Send {a down}
Sleep 62
Send {space down}
Sleep 72
Send {a up}
Sleep 5
Send {space up}

Using WPF for now, but the input text field has to be focused. I'd rather be able to record the keystrokes while I'm in my game, hence the question :)

Answer 1

Have a look at the SetWindowsHookEx function. This can be used to monitor keystrokes across the system.

Answer 2

As far as I know, in order to accomplish this you will need to hook into Win32 API.

This project may help you get started.