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grab mouse and key input outside of python window

Oct 11th, 2009

hi everyone. just recently I've been messing around with controlling itunes with python (you should check it out on google; some pretty fun stuff to mess with

). I've already got all of my functions down, but my questions is that how would I go about grabbing keyboard/mouse input (mouse buttons, not really mouse movement) outside of the python window? (or while a different window is the current active window). I know how to get keyboard input inside of the python window using

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from msvcrt import getch
from msvcrt import getch

Anyone have any suggestions?

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Oct 12th, 2009

For the keyboard I use pyHook and pythoncom.
Try something like this.

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import pythoncom, pyHook, sys
 
def OnKeyboardEvent(event):
    x = chr(event.Ascii)
    print "Key: ", chr(event.Ascii)
    #do something here
    #x can be a conditional for something
    return True #,return x
 
hm = pyHook.HookManager()
hm.KeyDown = OnKeyboardEvent
hm.HookKeyboard()
pythoncom.PumpMessages() #will wait forever
import pythoncom, pyHook, sys

def OnKeyboardEvent(event):
    x = chr(event.Ascii)
    print "Key: ", chr(event.Ascii)
    #do something here
    #x can be a conditional for something
    return True #,return x
    
hm = pyHook.HookManager()
hm.KeyDown = OnKeyboardEvent
hm.HookKeyboard()
pythoncom.PumpMessages() #will wait forever

I haven't tested this actual code, but play around with it.
I have an example using this http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread229564.html

Last edited by Tech B; Oct 12th, 2009 at 3:52 pm. Reason: code tag fix

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really cool, thanks!

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