Support for Latest Electron

[orfeas05]

Is there any plan on making iohook compatible with the latest Electron?

I really liked using it but now I'm forced to use the newest Electron version and everything feels off without iohook.

Thanks in advance, Orfeas.

[marcelblum]

+1. Happy to throw some donation $$ to the maintainers if that would help make a difference @Djiit ...

[Djiit]

Nah, just didn't had time. I'll do this tonight.

[marcelblum]

whoah sweet thanks!

[orfeas05]

that just made my day <3

[marcelblum]

really hoping that maybe https://github.com/kwhat/libuiohook/pull/72 fixes nasty #93

[Djiit]

It should be ok with 0.6.6, can you test it ?

[defano]

Thanks, @Djiit !

Added 0.6.6 to my project using Electron 80 (v9.0.5) but I get this crash immediately on launch (macOS Catalina):

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 iohook.node 0x000000010dc997af Nan::imp::FunctionCallbackWrapper(v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&) + 31 1 com.github.Electron.framework 0x00000001034783ef v8::internal::Accessors::MakeAccessor(v8::internal::Isolate*, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::Name>, void (*)(v8::Local<v8::Name>, v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&), void (*)(v8::Local<v8::Name>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<v8::Boolean> const&)) + 16815 2 com.github.Electron.framework 0x0000000103477911 v8::internal::Accessors::MakeAccessor(v8::internal::Isolate*, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::Name>, void (*)(v8::Local<v8::Name>, v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&), void (*)(v8::Local<v8::Name>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<v8::Boolean> const&)) + 14033 3 com.github.Electron.framework 0x0000000103476fa2 v8::internal::Accessors::MakeAccessor(v8::internal::Isolate*, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::Name>, void (*)(v8::Local<v8::Name>, v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&), void (*)(v8::Local<v8::Name>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<v8::Boolean> const&)) + 11618 4 com.github.Electron.framework 0x0000000103ea9d78 v8::internal::SetupIsolateDelegate::SetupHeap(v8::internal::Heap*) + 484168

No issues running 0.6.5 with Electron 8.2.0 (76)

[ykhwong]

I am having the same issue as above on Windows 10 x64. (Electron 80 : v9.0.5) It terminates immediately upon require('iohook').

[Djiit]

Hu, ok, I have the same. I'll revert the change to make sure nobody try to use it. I'm really sorry but don't have time to work on this right now. Any help would be more than welcome.

[Djiit]

nvm, the version is still OK with older versions. I'll just make it bold in the readme that we need help to support newer versions.

[marcelblum]

Same here, Windows 10. Simple test using https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start and installing iohook, adding app.allowRendererProcessReuse = false and webPreferences: {nodeIntegration: true} to main.js, calling require('iohook') from the renderer crashes that process. However I am able to use this new version 0.6.6 with Electron 8.3.4 (electron-76) just fine. #93 is still a problem.

[napalm00]

I was able to compile iohook on Windows 10 x64 for Electron v9.2.0 using node-gyp and it works properly, somehow compiling with cmake-js makes it crash as soon as a method call is executed (e.g NodeHookAddon.startHook) with no error printed to the console.

[ykhwong]

I was able to compile iohook on Windows 10 x64 for Electron v9.2.0 using node-gyp and it works properly, somehow compiling with cmake-js makes it crash as soon as a method call is executed (e.g NodeHookAddon.startHook) with no error printed to the console.

Thanks, it's working fine with the node-gyp.

[renzner]

I was able to compile iohook on Windows 10 x64 for Electron v9.2.0 using node-gyp and it works properly, somehow compiling with cmake-js makes it crash as soon as a method call is executed (e.g NodeHookAddon.startHook) with no error printed to the console.

Dumb question here. How did you compile it using node-gyp?

[ykhwong]

I was able to compile iohook on Windows 10 x64 for Electron v9.2.0 using node-gyp and it works properly, somehow compiling with cmake-js makes it crash as soon as a method call is executed (e.g NodeHookAddon.startHook) with no error printed to the console.

Dumb question here. How did you compile it using node-gyp?

I created the following files binding.gyp and uiohook.gyp before running the node-gyp to compile the iohook.

binding.gyp

{
    "targets": [{
        "target_name": "iohook",
        "win_delay_load_hook": "true",
        "type": "shared_library",
        "sources": [
            "src/iohook.cc",
            "src/iohook.h"
        ],
        "dependencies": [
            "./uiohook.gyp:uiohook"
        ],
        "include_dirs": [
            "<!(node -e \"require('nan')\")",
            "libuiohook/include"
        ],
        "configurations": {
            "Release": {
                "msvs_settings": {
                    "VCCLCompilerTool": {
                        'ExceptionHandling': 1
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }]
}

uiohook.gyp

{
    "targets": [{
        "target_name": "uiohook",
        "type": "shared_library",
        "sources": [
            "libuiohook/include/uiohook.h",
            "libuiohook/src/logger.c",
            "libuiohook/src/logger.h",
            "libuiohook/src/windows/input_helper.h",
            "libuiohook/src/windows/input_helper.c",
            "libuiohook/src/windows/input_hook.c",
            "libuiohook/src/windows/post_event.c",
            "libuiohook/src/windows/system_properties.c"
        ],
        "include_dirs": [
            'node_modules/nan',
            'libuiohook/include',
            'libuiohook/src'
        ]
    }]
}

Build

node-gyp configure build --target=9.2.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron

[renzner]

Thanks :) I'll try this one.

[Djiit]

Hey @ykhwong , would you be interested in opening a PR that introduce node-gyp usage ? It could help us to support Electron 9 and 10 (and other versions).

Thanks!

[BhuvanRohith]

Any update on this. It would be really helpful for electron 9 and 10 versions.

[BhuvanRohith]

Thanks :) I'll try this one. Hey @renzner , were you able to successfully do a gyp build ?

[ykhwong]

Hey @ykhwong , would you be interested in opening a PR that introduce node-gyp usage ? It could help us to support Electron 9 and 10 (and other versions).

I opened a pull request at https://github.com/wilix-team/iohook/pull/258 Please consider removing CMakeLists.txt and cmake-js in package.json.

[renzner]

Thanks :) I'll try this one. Hey @renzner , were you able to successfully do a gyp build ?

Looks complicated to me. So I ended up downgrading my electron version :)

[Djiit]

Hey @ykhwong , many thanks ! I'll review this over the weekend.

[ash0x0]

Closing as resolved.