Re: KeyPress event with holding down the key
 

Ah, thanks to both of you. Yup, as far as I can tell, it's interpreting the continuous press as you said, as a repeated keypress/keyrelease event pair. My guess is that it's to do with the Mac or possibly the version of Tkinter I'm using.

I'm looking forward to what you find out, Jeff. Could you please post it here or send me a private message when you hear?

Cheers,

Aot

Re: KeyPress event with holding down the key
 

You will have to sit there with a stopwatch, but this could do the timing for you ...

# count how many times the keyboard is scanned on

# one continuous keypress of character 'a' 

import Tkinter as tk

class MyFrame(tk.Frame):

    def __init__(self, master):

        tk.Frame.__init__(self, master)

        # method call counter

        self.counter_press = 0

        self.pack()

        root.bind_all('<a>', self.key_press)

        

    def key_press(self, event):

        self.counter_press += 1

        # show result in title

        root.title(str(self.counter_press))

        

root = tk.Tk()

root.geometry("400x30+0+0")

app1 = MyFrame(root)

root.mainloop()

Re: KeyPress event with holding down the key
 

I was having the same problem, the ideas here brought me to the solution, using the after_idle methode:

from Tkinter import *



class MyFrame(Frame):

    def __init__(self, master):

        tk.Frame.__init__(self, master)

        # method call counter

        self.pack()

        self.afterId = None

        root.bind('<KeyPress-a>', self.key_press)

        root.bind('<KeyRelease-a>', self.key_release)

        

    def key_press(self, event):

        if self.afterId != None:

            self.after_cancel( self.afterId )

            self.afterId = None

        else:

            print 'key pressed %s' % event.time



    def key_release(self, event):

        self.afterId = self.after_idle( self.process_release, event )



    def process_release(self, event):

        print 'key release %s' % event.time

        self.afterId = None



        

        

root = Tk()

root.geometry("400x30+0+0")

app1 = MyFrame(root)

root.mainloop()