Capturing global input?

[MonkeeSage]

On Dec 6, 9:16 pm, MonkeeSage <MonkeeS... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 3:51 pm, nomihn0 <nomi... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to accept mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts as input to a
> > program. The nature of this program requires that these commands be
> > issued regardless of the currently active window. Here's the rub: I
> > need a platform-independent solution.
>
> > Java supports with its MouseInfo class, but I'd like a Python
> > equivalent without turning to Jython.  Is this possible?
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> There is no cross-platform way to do that. You have to use whatever
> interface the OS provides for that (e.g., Xlib events for X11). You
> could probably write a platform independent way by testing the OS and
> using the appropriate apis for that OS (assuming that there are python
> modules like python-xlib for other OS). I wonder why you'd want to
> though, if Java already provides a solution? If you don't want to muck
> with Java syntax, what about Jython?
>
> Regards,
> Jordan

Ps. I saw you said you didn't want Jython, but I can't see why.