Hotkeys in a minimized Tkinter-based program

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I am making a hack for a game, and I want to start/stop the script with the F7 hotkey while the game is running at full screen. I've tried to use root.bind and pynput to do it, but none of them worked.

Here is my code:

hack_running = False


def hack():
    if  hack_running:
        PressKeyPynput(0x02)
        time.sleep(0.08)
        ReleaseKeyPynput(0x02)
        PressKeyPynput(0x11)
        time.sleep(0.5)
        ReleaseKeyPynput(0x11)
        PressKeyPynput(0x1F)
        time.sleep(0.6)
        ReleaseKeyPynput(0x1F)
        PressKeyPynput(0x02)
        time.sleep(0.08)
        ReleaseKeyPynput(0x02)
        root.after(900000, hack)

def Start_stop():
    global hack_running
    if Startk['text'] == 'Start':
        hack_running = True
        hack()
        Startk.config(text='Stop')
    else:
        hack_running = False
        Startk.config(text='Start')


root = tk.Tk()

root.resizable(False, False)

canvas = tk.Canvas(root, height=HEIGHT, width=WIDTH)
canvas.pack()

frame = tk.Frame(root, bg='black')
frame.place(relwidth=1, relheight=1)

Startk = tk.Button(frame, text='Start', font=("Calibri", 10), command=Start_stop)
Startk.pack(side='top', pady='50')

root.mainloop()
hotkeys python-3.x tkinter user-interface python
2 Answers

Pynput has an easy class which provide hotkey function called GlobalHotKeys.Reference here.

Unfortunately,if there is only python,I think it couldn't do more if you want to make it work in game.

Normally, there are also keyboard listener thread in game.When your python script work with your game together,they will cause conflict.And your python script couldn't work normally.(And game will always take some measures to prevent cheating.)

As far as I know,AutoHotkey script could work in game(at least it worked for me in the past).AutoHotkey Official document.On macOS,refer this

user_118112550

Try using pynput:

import pynput

def run():
    print('f7') # your code

def press(key):
    if key == pynput.keyboard.Key.f7:
        run()

pynput.keyboard.Listener(on_press=press).run()

For keyboard combinations see this github issue. Hope that's helpful!

user_107132440
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