Long keypress using keycapture
While developing Fake Call, we had to find a way of detecting long keypress of an especific key. The solution we found was to keep calling a function that puts the current time in a list when the key is pressed and check everytime if the last value minus the first is equal to the amount of seconds desired. It goes something like this:
import time import key_codes import keycapture import globalui def check(): global press global secs time_so_far = int(secs[-1] - secs[0]) if (time_so_far == press): secs = [] globalui.global_note(unicode("done"), 'info') #here you put what you want to do #when the key is pressed for the specified #number of seconds elif (time_so_far > press): #Reset the couting secs = [] def cb_key_capture(key): global secs if key == key_codes.EKeyStar: #EKeyStar is just an example! You can use other secs.append(time.time()) check() secs = [] #list of seconds press = 3 #3 seconds long, for ex. #Create a KeyCapturer object, specifying the method capturer = keycapture.KeyCapturer(cb_key_capture) #only the star key should be captured capturer.keys = (keycapture.EKeyStar,) #Start detecting key presses capturer.start()
This is just a way of making it. If you know any other, share!
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