I am trying to create a python programm where it will check if the app i want is open(e.g. Minecraft) and if it is, when the app is in the foreground i want to remap Alt+Tab to press F11 and then minimize the window as like pressing the minimize button of the window. For minimizing i don't want to use the hotkey WindowsKey+M. If there is another way i can achieve that, it's ok with me and i would like to test it, but i would prefer if you could help me with creating the programm. That's the gist of it, if you need a better explanation or anything else i'll try to help you any way i can. Thanks in advance! Also i am using Python 3.7.
EDIT:
I used AutoHotKey in order to achieve the remaping but then alt+tab loses it's original functionality. I would like to prevent that. Here is the script i created:
!Tab::
if WinActive("ahk_class Minecraft")
{
Send, {F11}
WinMinimize
Return
}
Adding ~ as prefix will preserve the hotkey's original functionality.
In the documentation (Hotkeys | ~):
When the hotkey fires, its key's native function will not be blocked
(hidden from the system)
Change your code to ~!Tab::
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Ok, so what I want to do is allow my program to send mouse movements and keypresses (both mouse and keyboard) to a particular task without having to be tabbed into the task so I can do other things on my computer with the mouse and keyboard while the task runs. Is it possible to do this relatively simply with existing python modules?
example of what I want to do:
task='application name'
task.leftclick
task.moveX(int)
task.moveY(int)
task.keypress(r)
All while being able to use my mouse and keyboard normally on a different application.
Thanks for the help in advance!
(Python3.6)
For anyone who happens upon this post, I found https://pypi.org/project/ahk/ I haven't looked into it fully but either you can use this or create an auto hotkey script and just call that with you python code to achieve what I wanted to do in the question.
There is a user created GUI which is an .exe that loads a DLL. This GUI has a bunch of sliders, check boxes etc. I would like to move two sliders at the same time using python automatically without me using my mouse to move the sliders. I would like to know the python modules that an be used to achieve this purpose.
You can try using SikuliX.
It can be used to automate mouse or keyboard actions based on pattern matching. It is originally developed for Java I think, but it can be used with Python.
Basically, anything you can do yourself manually can be done with it.
The developer seems to be pretty active, so you can easily seek help from him if you have issues.
I am writing long running program with simple GUI, the 99% of time I would like the program to work only as process, however sometimes I want to check the status, so is it possible to capture the keypress event in python?
For example I want to show the program window when I press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Q, I expect to use app on Windows
Thank you
There are tutorials on how to create a key-logger with Python. They should help. But I do not know if that is the right way to go.
Also you could register shortcuts under a key combination on Windows.
You should be aware that Ctrl+Shift+Alt are handled independent of the keyboard layout and Q changes with the language.
With pywin32 you should be able to do that using Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F1 for example.
I made a program in python which allows you to type commands (e.g: if you type clock, it shows you the date and time). But, I want it to be fullscreen. The problem is that my software doesnt have gui and I dont want it to so that probably means that I wont be using tkinter or pygame. Can some of you write a whole 'hello world' program in fullscreen for me? What I am aiming for is for my program to look a bit like ms-dos. Any help??? By the way, im very new to python (approximately 4 weeks).
NOTE: I have python 3.4.1
Since Vista, cmd.exe can no longer go to full-screen mode. You'll need to implement a full-screen console emulator yourself or look for another existing solution. E.g. ConEmu appears to be able to do it.
Solution
Use your Operating System services to configure parameters.
<_aMouseRightClick_>->[Properties]->[Layout]
Kindly notice, that some of the python interpreter process window parameters are given in [char]-s, while some other in [px]:
size.Width [char]-s
size.Height[char]-s
loc.X [px]
loc.Y [px]
So adjust these values so as to please your intentions.
You may set negative values for [loc.X, loc.Y] to move/hide window edges "outside" the screen left/top edges
I have to write a script to emulate some keyboard event in a different program in background.This is my codeļ¼
pwin = win32ui.FindWindow(None,r'someprograme')
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYDOWN,18)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYDOWN,68)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYUP,18)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYUP,68)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYDOWN,13)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYUP,13)
But it seems nothing happened.So what should i do?I've tried PostMessage func it seems it still can not do it.
After a quick look at the WM_KEYDOWN docs:
Posted to the window with the keyboard focus when a nonsystem key is pressed. A nonsystem key is a key that is pressed when the ALT key is not pressed.
But looking up your keycodes, you're trying to send ALT-D (followed by ENTER, which is fine). It sounds like you're trying to drive the menus; if that's what you want to do, WM_KEYDOWN is not the way to do it.
The problem is that keyboard menu navigation is driven by Windows, not by the app (except for a handful of apps that override normal menu processing, like some versions of Visual Studio). When you're looking at Notepad, and you hit ALT-F to open the File menu, the Notepad code gets a bunch of menu-related messages (WM_INITMENU, etc.), not the keystrokes.
If you use a WM spy program (I think the free Visual Studio Express still comes with Spy++ and ManagedSpy, but if not, search for an equivalent), you can see what the application is actually seeing when you drive it with the keyboard, and then you can figure out how to emulate that from your Python script.
On top of everything else, depending on how the program is written, it may not accept keystrokes when it doesn't have focus.
By the way, if you're just getting started with Windows GUI automation, you might want to look at something higher level, like pywinauto. That way, you don't have to work out what menu-related messages to send to open the Data menu; you just do something like app.Foo.MenuSelect('Data').