[python-win32] Capture "Windows Key" keypress

[Tim Golden]

[Nate Drake]

| Is there a way to have my python program catch when the user has
| pressed the windows key, and to prevent the OS from seeing that the
| user has pressed it?
| 
| I'm writing a small "game" with pygame, and he sometimes bangs the
| windows key and the game is minimized and I go back to the desktop.

I don't know of any way to do exactly this, but even assuming someone
can come up with some system-hook derived mechanism, I would *strongly*
advise against doing it unless you have some mission-critical reason
for it... and possibly not then. I say this simply because I believe
it would take quite a low-level hack to override the Win key and such
hacks have a nasty effect of destabilising other things.

My twopence-ha'penny worth.

TJG


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