How to mark the NSEvent as handled?

Question

I handle pressing of letter keys on keyboard with the following code.

NSEvent.addGlobalMonitorForEvents(matching: NSEvent.EventTypeMask.keyDown) { event in
    // code
}

How do I then mark the NSEvent as handled, not allowing it to be handled again by system and another apps? For example do not allow the input of a pressed letter in the opened text editor?

Compare https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31891002/how-do-you-use-cgeventtapcreate-in-swift — Martin R, Jan 07 '18 at 09:20

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 07 '18 at 08:41

You can't do that with NSEvent. As the docs note:

Events are delivered asynchronously to your app and you can only observe the event; you cannot modify or otherwise prevent the event from being delivered to its original target application.

You're not part of the event-generation system; you're just getting notifications as part of your runloop.

If you want to become part of the event system, below the app layer, you need to use CGEvent. See tapCreate(tap:place:options:eventsOfInterest:callback:userInfo:). The callback can return NULL to indicate it's consumed the event.

How to mark the NSEvent as handled?

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