v8.0.0

[TolikPylypchuk]

This release contains multiple breaking changes, new features, and bug fixes. View the migration guide for upgrade guidelines.

Breaking Changes

• When running on Wayland, SharpHook doesn't use X11 APIs by default anymore.

• SharpHook now provides 4 libuiohook binaries on Linux - libuiohook.so, libuiohook-xrecord.so, libuiohook-x11.so, and libuiohook-wayland.so – all 4 should generally be packaged with your application.

• The UioHook class is now internal – UioHookProvider.Instance should be used instead.

• TestGlobalHook, TestProvider, and TestThreadingMode were moved to the separate SharpHook.Testing package.

• KeyTyped events are disabled by default now.

• All classes and interfaces related to event simulation were moved to the SharpHook.Simulation namespace.

• IEventSimulator is now disposable, and instances of EventSimulator must be disposed after usage.

• EventSimulator.Create should be used instead of new EventSimulator().

• EventSimulationSequenceBuilder and EventSimulationSequenceTemplate now accept EventSimulator instead of IEventSimulationProvider in their constructors.

• IReactiveGlobalHook and IReactiveLogSource were moved from SharpHook.Reactive to SharpHook, but they retain their namespace.

• Delegates from SharpHook.Native were moved to SharpHook.Data. The former namespace does not exist anymore.

• GetAutoRepeatRate and GetAutoRepeatDelay were moved from IMouseInfoProvider into a new IKeyboardInfoProvider.

• Many values across multiple enums in SharpHook.Data were changed, in particular, KeyCode.

• EventType is now ushort. MouseMovedRelativeToCursor was renamed to MouseMovedRelative. MouseDraggedRelative was added.

• KeyCode: Vc102 was renamed to VcSection. VcKanji and VcHangul were removed – use VcHanja and VcKana respectively instead.

• UioHookResult: ErrorPostTextNull was removed and ErrorNull should be used instead.

• globalHookType and runAsyncOnBackgroundThread were dropped from global hook constructors. Instead, globalHookType and useBackgroundThread should be passed directly into the Run and RunAsync methods.

• Constructors in EventSimulator, TestGlobalHook, and TestProvider were merged to use a parameter with a default value instead of 2 different constructors.

• IEventSimulator.TextSimulationDelayOnX11 and IEventSimulationProvider.PostTextDelayX11 were renamed to TextSimulationDelayOnLinux and PostTextDelayLinux respectively.

• All method parameters named e that had the type of UioHookEvent were renamed to @event.

• The static HookEventArgs.FromEvent method was removed as it was unused.

New Features

• SharpHook has support for Wayland now, though several features are limited or missing. It also requires elevated privileges on Wayland.

• It's possible to select a Linux backend of libuohook through ILinuxBackendProvider.

• SharpHook.ReactiveUI – a new package for integration with ReactiveUI.Primitives was added.

• Support for features that are not available on all platforms can now be queried using IFeatureProvider.

• Relative mouse movement events were added to global hooks. These events are only raised on Wayland.

• EventLoopGlobalHook can now make its event loop thread a background thread.

Bug Fixes

• EventSimulationSequenceBuilder and EventSimulationSequenceTemplate don't accept events of type KeyTyped and MouseClicked anymore – simulating these events was always invalid in libuiohook.

• Mouse wheel event rotation values were fixed on Windows and Linux again.

• Logging support was fixed on Linux on ARM64

Other Changes

• libuiohook is now at version 2.0.0. This release and future releases of SharpHook will use libuiohook tags instead of raw commits.

• Observable sequences are not disposed anymore when reactive hooks are disposed, they are only completed.

• Mouse wheel rotation now uses multiples of 120 on Linux, like on Windows, instead of multiples of 100.

• The field order in UioHookEvent and MouseWheelEventData was changed to make UioHookEvent take up less space in memory.

• Calling base.BeforeRun and base.AfterStop in custom global hooks is not being recommended anymore.

• Explicit support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 was dropped, but it's still available via .NET Standard.

• net10.0-maccatalyst was dropped as a TFM from SharpHook.Reactive and SharpHook.R3, as it's not needed for them.

• SharpHook.Reactive now uses Rx.NET 7, SharpHook.R3 now uses R3 1.3.1.

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This discussion was created from the release v8.0.0.

[TolikPylypchuk]

This release finally brings Wayland support for SharpHook! You can read more details in the Wayland discussion - I've implemented it basically the same as described there.