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Rebop Blasters

An overpowered platform fighter with destructible terrain and a procedurally generated jazz soundtrack. · By dean_sick

[edit: seems like a macOS Catalina/Unity issue] Permission popup: receive keystrokes from any application

A topic by wberk created Jun 15, 2020 Views: 527 Replies: 3
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Hi,

Running Rebop Blasters (on MacOS, version 72 uploaded 68 days ago) creates a popup asking for permission to receive keystrokes from any application. It looks like the following popup, but with Rebop Blasters as the application (I didn't get a screenshot and don't want to re-run the application given the circumstances):


This is very unsettling—is this expected behavior? Is there a reason that it would be necessary?


I saw the topic about antivirus warnings from a year back, but also see that this was updated recently, which seems like a red flag.

Developer

That appears to be a catalina thing. Apple is stepping up warnings from third-party apps. I’ll look into it but I can 100% assure you that I don’t even receive analytics from the game let alone keystrokes. I’ll investigate. In the meantime, try denying it?

Developer

I would add that I am actually working on a smallish update, I’ll see about doing the catalina app hardening stuff which should alleviate this. I think this is at least partly because of the way that unity polls for input. If you use a controller the game should work flawlessly without any need to even know that you have a keyboard.

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Okay, thanks for the quick reply—I can confirm that I it still does work after denying the permission, and also I see that Unity has had this issue as mentioned here, and other applications seem to be running into it.