community. I’m trying to put together a quick hotkey script in python here. For some reason it doesn’t react to function keys, meaning the expression ‘<ctrl>+<F2>’: function_1 doesn’t work. I was not able to find any clues in the official documentation or other exampl…
Tag: pynput
How to pause a pynput event listener
I am trying to make a program that will read the user’s inputs and if it detects a certain key combination, it will type a special character. Currently I am testing and I want the script to just output a ‘+’ after each character that the user types. I am using the pynput event listener to de…
Stopping running while loop if conditions are met
The code below is intended to print out the contents of arrays, until either the mouse (left click) is released, or the end of the array is reached. How would I stop the while loop in the function logging_mouse, once the mouse is released? Answer you need to actually use the args to the on_click function̷…
pynput custom autokey script isn’t working when following video guide
I wanted to create a hotkey but decided to “challenge” myself by using Python instead of AHK. I wanted the phrase Scheiße! printed out whenever I pressed the key combination Ctrl+Alt+P(or p) I referred to this video and wrote the following script: When I execute the script, the following error(s) …
How to run pynput.Listener simultaneously with tkinter.Tk().mainloop()
I am a teacher. I teach math, but since education is facing human resources crisis, I have some additional duties. I teach kids a bit of programming, they do quite well. Now I’d like to make with them a snake game, but I have a problem achieving multithreading in my GUI app. I found similar cases but no…
Detect key release while using keyboard module
Warning: my English sucks and also I’m really new to python So I’m making a program that requires a specific Key Press (e.g. space bar) to continue the loop, like: and my method for the last line is the keyboard module (not from pynput), which has the functionis_pressed. When I pressed a key, I go…