Re: Keyboard hook in linux

2013-01-13 Thread K. Elo
Hi! Thanks, Michael, for your quick - and heplful - reply. 13.01.2013 18:46, Michael Torrie wrote: You're wrong. curses does offer a direct solution to this. Check the docs. Also here's a nice intro document for Python 3: http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/curses.html You are right :) The do

Re: Keyboard hook in linux

2013-01-13 Thread garabik-news-2005-05
K. Elo wrote: > Practically I am looking for something similar than Pascal's > "keypressed" function As already mentioned, (n)curses is a good solution. However, if you need/want to go to lower levels, you can read /dev/input/event* like this (excerpt from one of my programs): def opendevs()

Re: Keyboard hook in linux

2013-01-13 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/13/2013 09:13 AM, K. Elo wrote: > I have searched in the Web and in several tutorials (e.g. "Programming > python"), but this seems to be a tricky one. The 'pyHook' library seems > to offer a keyboard hook manager, but 'pyHook' is not available for > linux :( IMHO, the 'curses' library off

Re: Keyboard hook in linux

2013-01-13 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/13/2013 09:13 AM, K. Elo wrote: > I am working on a small console app for linux. The idea is to display > some sensor values and the screen should update itself in, say, every 10 > seconds. > > The user should have the possibly to change some configurations or gwt > help by pressing diffe