[Tutor] Print Screen

[Chris Hengge]

Wow, that hasn't come up in my searching, thanks!
Looks like you are right and the project is dead, but the author did toss
there code up for viewing so I can stumble around a bit there.

On 11/3/06, Jonathon Sisson <sisson.j at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but this site might be
> useful:
>
> http://bdash.net.nz/blog/2003/12/24/python-vnc-client/
>
> The code base has (last I heard) fallen stagnant, but it may very well
> be worth a look as a starting point for your VNC project idea.
>
> Jonathon
>
>
> Chris Hengge wrote:
> > Wow.. I have visions of writing a little wanna-be VNC client/server now
> > using the ImageGrab.grab() =D
> > This ImageGrab trick does exactly what I wanted. Thanks for the tip!
> >
> > Actually, I want to write a little package for the learning experience
> > sometime over the holidays (plus I use VNC fairly often), but I can't
> > find any direction, or any already made packages for python for the VNC
> > protocol (no libs?).
> >
> > On 11/2/06, *Luke Paireepinart* <rabidpoobear at gmail.com
> > <mailto:rabidpoobear at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >      >> Anyone know of a way to capture special keys like "Print
> Screen"?
> >      >> I have a small script to grab all they keycodes, but it doesn't
> >     seem to
> >      >> catch several keys on the keyboard. I've got a utility that I'd
> >     like to
> >      >> be able to automagically get a screenshot when something goes
> >     wrong so I
> >      >> dont have to hope the user can re-create the error. Universal
> >     support
> >      >> would be best, but WinXP is the main OS
> >      >>
> >      >>
> >      >
> >      > I'm not exactly sure what you want here :-) but if you want to
> >     capture
> >      > when the 'Print Screen' key (or any other key) has actually been
> >      > pressed, try pyHook. Note: pyHook only works on Windows!
> >      >
> >     Also note that if you want all of the keypresses, but you _don't_
> care
> >     about the application with focus
> >     receiving the input, you can do a complete key grab using TKInter or
> >     Pygame, and probably the other GUI packages too.
> >     But, like I said, if you were, for example, typing an e-mail and you
> >     started a script that did a complete grab like this, you'd no longer
> be
> >     able to type
> >     into the e-mail window.  Using pyHook, your program could see all
> the
> >     keypresses, but they'd also still be sent to the e-mail program.
> >     Actually, I've never tried it, but I'm pretty sure that's how the
> GUI
> >     packages' key capturing works.
> >     You may be asking 'well, it sounds like pyHook does a better job of
> >     this
> >     anyway!'
> >     Yeah, you're right.
> >     However, as Alan exclaimed, pyHook works only on Windows!
> >     So the solution I offered would be more portable.
> >     Hope that helps,
> >     -Luke
> >
> >
> >
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