Grab keyboard events outside the appliaction in Qt

Question

I would need to emit a beep from an MP3 or Wav file each time a key from my keyboard is pressed.

Any idea how to achieve this in Qt ?

In case you are interested on the reason why I need this:

I am using a glass keyboard from Tactys: http://www.tactys.com/?page_id=303 because of pain in the wrist. Unfortunately the default beep of the keyboard is too loud and disturbs my colleagues. Setting the beep off make me press to heavily generating pain in the fingers. As I wrote a Time tracker application I would like to enhance it emitting a sound at each key stroke.

Thanks

Answer 1

As @leemes said, you could use QxtGlobalShortcut. It supports Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows as well as Qt4/5.