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Oct 11th, 2009

grab mouse and key input outside of python window

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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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Re: grab mouse and key input outside of python window

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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Re: grab mouse and key input outside of python window

really cool, thanks!

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