[Tutor] Print Screen

[Luke Paireepinart]

>> Anyone know of a way to capture special keys like "Print Screen"?
>> I have a small script to grab all they keycodes, but it doesn't seem to 
>> catch several keys on the keyboard. I've got a utility that I'd like to 
>> be able to automagically get a screenshot when something goes wrong so I 
>> dont have to hope the user can re-create the error. Universal support 
>> would be best, but WinXP is the main OS
>>
>>     
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you want here :-) but if you want to capture
> when the 'Print Screen' key (or any other key) has actually been
> pressed, try pyHook. Note: pyHook only works on Windows!
>   
Also note that if you want all of the keypresses, but you _don't_ care 
about the application with focus
receiving the input, you can do a complete key grab using TKInter or 
Pygame, and probably the other GUI packages too.
But, like I said, if you were, for example, typing an e-mail and you 
started a script that did a complete grab like this, you'd no longer be 
able to type
into the e-mail window.  Using pyHook, your program could see all the 
keypresses, but they'd also still be sent to the e-mail program.
Actually, I've never tried it, but I'm pretty sure that's how the GUI 
packages' key capturing works.
You may be asking 'well, it sounds like pyHook does a better job of this 
anyway!'
Yeah, you're right.
However, as Alan exclaimed, pyHook works only on Windows!
So the solution I offered would be more portable.
Hope that helps,
-Luke