Modifier keys log on keydown and keyup about keylogger HOT 8 CLOSED

@mattalexander-pantheon Thanks for the bump. I've have left this unmaintained for a long time, but I've just done some much needed house cleaning. Hopefully it meets your needs now.

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IMO it would be even more helpful if it said "[left-shift down][left-shift up]" so in the case of uppercase words you know the begin/end

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2016? I think I'll uninstall rather than hold my breath.

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Resolved.

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Any thoughts on handling up/down events for something like shift? Hard to know which letters are capitalized if we don't know when it was released

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@RSully I made an update tonight that applies the shift key state to the output of the log file. If the shift key is held it will show the proper special character or capital letter that corresponds to the combination of the two keys.

In the process I removed the [left-shift] and [right-shift] outputs from the log file which seemed like the most appropriate solution. I'm definitely open to suggestions if you think it should work differently.

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Cool, glad to see some attention here. With that said, I think the current implementation doesn't lend itself too well to supporting international keyboard layouts in the future (?)

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You can figure out whether the key event was an up or down event by inspecting the flags of the event @caseyscarborough (note this also works for regular events, like kCGEventKeyDown):

    // In CGEventCallback
    printf("%llu\n", CGEventGetFlags(event));

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