Re: [pygame] full keyboard control

[Brian Davis]

pyHook looks to be the way to go. I just posted a recipe to the ASPN
cookbook that is basically the example Brian F. linked to above with a
few mods to block the windows key and alt-tab and use the pygame event
pump. No matter what you do pyHook won't block the ctrl-alt-del
combination which seems like a good thing.

Here's the link to the recipe:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/553270
And the code if that link doesn't work:
import pyHook
import pygame

# create a keyboard hook
def OnKeyboardEvent(event):
        print 'MessageName:',event.MessageName
        print 'Message:',event.Message
        print 'Time:',event.Time
        print 'Window:',event.Window
        print 'WindowName:',event.WindowName
        print 'Ascii:', event.Ascii, chr(event.Ascii)
        print 'Key:', event.Key
        print 'KeyID:', event.KeyID
        print 'ScanCode:', event.ScanCode
        print 'Extended:', event.Extended
        print 'Injected:', event.Injected
        print 'Alt', event.Alt
        print 'Transition', event.Transition
        print '---'
        if event.Key.lower() in ['lwin', 'tab', 'lmenu']:
                return False    # block these keys
        else:
                # return True to pass the event to other handlers
                return True

# create a hook manager
hm = pyHook.HookManager()
# watch for all keyboard events
hm.KeyDown = OnKeyboardEvent
# set the hook
hm.HookKeyboard()

# initialize pygame and start the game loop
pygame.init()

while(1):
        pygame.event.pump()

Thanks to everbody for the help!

-Brian