Please post what you wind up using, this comes up for me pretty often too. In Windows there's a super easy way to get global keypresses, but I haven't found anything in *nix.
Windows method: i = win32api.GetAsyncKeyState([keycode]) On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:02 AM, winkleink <winkle...@gmail.com> wrote: > James - thank you. I will have a look at your code. > I was getting the feeling that this is how Pygame works. > > Pygame will read a USB gamepad without any display. > So, somehow a gamepad is different to a keyboard. > > Again, thank you for your help. > > Albert. > > > On 30 May 2013 03:50, James Paige [via pygame-users] <[hidden > email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=724&i=0> > > wrote: > >> A couple years ago I was trying to do something very similar. It wasn't >> a raspbery pi, but it was a very small fanless linux box running debian. >> In production, it had no monitor and never ran X. All the output was to >> a serial LCD and all the input was from a barcode scanner that sent >> keypresses as a keyboard. >> >> I tried to use pygame for reading the input, but I finally gave up. >> Without a window, pygame is just the wrong tool for the job. >> >> I finally ended up using python's termios module. Here is a small >> wrapper that I used http://pastebin.com/q9xMVUSb >> >> I also found the timeout module handy in combination with reading raw >> stdin, but whether or not it will be useful for your program I don't >> know. >> >> --- >> James Paige >> >> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:05:59PM -0700, winkleink wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm running pygame in a raspberry pi. >> > The program I am writing has no graphical interface and I am connecting >> > using SSH (Putty from a Windows XP computer) >> > >> > I want to capture a key press (with no graphical interface) and take >> action. >> > Below is my code. From what I can tell it should work. >> > >> > Any advice greatly appreciated. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > View this message in context: >> http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/Using-Pygame-to-capture-key-presses-for-CLI-prgram-tp719.html >> > Sent from the pygame-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the >> discussion below: >> >> http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/Using-Pygame-to-capture-key-presses-for-CLI-prgram-tp719p723.html >> To unsubscribe from Using Pygame to capture key presses for CLI prgram?, >> click >> here. >> NAML<http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> >> > > > ------------------------------ > View this message in context: Re: [pygame] Using Pygame to capture key > presses for CLI > prgram?<http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/Using-Pygame-to-capture-key-presses-for-CLI-prgram-tp719p724.html> > > Sent from the pygame-users mailing list > archive<http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/>at Nabble.com. >
