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Global keyboard and mouse listeners for Java.
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Input tags with type="password" #52

Closed mogwai closed 9 years ago

mogwai commented 9 years ago

When typing into an input tag on any website, the native hook doesn't pick up anything at all.

kwhat commented 9 years ago

Is this on OS X?

mogwai commented 9 years ago

Yes Yosemite

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Is this on OS X?

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kwhat commented 9 years ago

As far as I know this is intentional on OS X to prevent key logging though the accessibility api. It wont work on any password input.