I'm coding a little tool that displays the key presses on the screen with Tkinter, useful for screen recording.
Is there a way to get a listener for all key presses of the system globally with Tkinter? (for every keystroke including F1, CTRL, ..., even when the Tkinter window does not have the focus)
I currently know a solution with pyHook.HookManager(), pythoncom.PumpMessages(), and also solutions from Listen for a shortcut (like WIN+A) even if the Python script does not have the focus but is there a 100% tkinter solution?
Indeed, pyhook is only for Python 2, and pyhook3 seems to be abandoned, so I would prefer a built-in Python3 / Tkinter solution for Windows.
Solution 1: if you need to catch keyboard events in your current window, you can use:
from tkinter import *
def key_press(event):
key = event.char
print(f"'{key}' is pressed")
root = Tk()
root.geometry('640x480')
root.bind('<Key>', key_press)
mainloop()
Solution 2: if you want to capture keys regardless of which window has focus, you can use keyboard