Capturing global input?

[nomihn0]

Thanks to all, you were very helpful.  I suppose I'll use Jython after
all.

On Dec 6, 10:17 pm, MonkeeSage <MonkeeS... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 9:16 pm, MonkeeSage <MonkeeS... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Dec 6, 3:51 pm, nomihn0 <nomi... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I'd like to accept mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts as input to a
> > > program. The nature of this program requires that these commands be
> > > issued regardless of the currently active window. Here's the rub: I
> > > need a platform-independent solution.
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> > > Java supports with its MouseInfo class, but I'd like a Python
> > > equivalent without turning to Jython.  Is this possible?
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> > > Thanks in advance.
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> > There is no cross-platform way to do that. You have to use whatever
> > interface the OS provides for that (e.g., Xlib events for X11). You
> > could probably write a platform independent way by testing the OS and
> > using the appropriate apis for that OS (assuming that there are python
> > modules like python-xlib for other OS). I wonder why you'd want to
> > though, if Java already provides a solution? If you don't want to muck
> > with Java syntax, what about Jython?
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> > Regards,
> > Jordan
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> Ps. I saw you said you didn't want Jython, but I can't see why.