Introduction

This recipe is for registering system wide hotkeys--key combinations that are captured whether or not your app/window has the current focus. Works only under MS Windows.

What Objects are Involved

Process Overview

First, register the hotkey. Bind the event to the event handler.

Special Concerns

Must have the win32 extensions installed. The Window.RegisterHotKey function takes the win32con.VK_* keycodes, rather than the wx.WVK_* keycodes.

Code Sample

   1 import wx
   2 import win32con #for the VK keycodes
   3 
   4 class FrameWithHotKey(wx.Frame):
   5     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
   6         wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
   7         self.regHotKey()
   8         self.Bind(wx.EVT_HOTKEY, self.handleHotKey, id=self.hotKeyId)
   9     def regHotKey(self):
  10         """
  11         This function registers the hotkey Alt+F1 with id=100
  12         """
  13         self.hotKeyId = 100
  14         self.RegisterHotKey(
  15             self.hotKeyId, #a unique ID for this hotkey
  16             win32con.MOD_ALT, #the modifier key
  17             win32con.VK_F1) #the key to watch for
  18     def handleHotKey(self, evt):
  19         """
  20         Prints a simple message when a hotkey event is received.
  21         """
  22         print "do hot key actions"
  23         

Comments

RegisterHotKey (last edited 2008-03-11 10:50:31 by localhost)

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