Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I haven't seen anything in the FAQ, wiki, or references (or even googling) regarding this: how to support hotkeys (or registered global key bindings) with PyGTK? What I mean:
I'd like for data from a barcode scanner to go to a particular file or process, not just to whatever is consuming stdin. (For more details about the usecase, see the thread starting @ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2010-March/075438.html ) One suggestion is to prefix an Alt-keychord, Ctrl-keychord, or function key to the scanner output, and to register the prefixed key as a hotkey. I know the particular barcode scanner I'm using claims to support a wide variety of prefix keys (per the PDF http://tinyurl.com/waspWLS9500manual pages 147-148, 169-170, 174-175, 177-178), and google led me to http://kaizer.se/wiki/python-keybinder > a python module for gtk-based applications registering global key > bindings. [...] This package has taken the python bindings for > Tomboy's keybinder from the Deskbar Applet project, and broken it > out to be a standalone module. However I haven't seen anything explaining (preferably at a newbie level) how to configure a PyGTK app to listen for and consume a registered hotkey. I did find a recent post to this list http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2009-April/016972.html > Is it possible to install a global keyboard shortcut, so if the user > presses Ctrl-Alt-X anywhere, and my pygtk application is running, my > application would get an event? but no replies to it. Can anyone show/tell me how to handle hotkeys in PyGTK? TIA, Tom Roche <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
