Re: [pygame] Using Pygame to capture key presses for CLI prgram?

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple years ago I was trying to do something very similar. It wasn't 
a raspbery pi, but it was a very small fanless linux box running debian. 
In production, it had no monitor and never ran X. All the output was to 
a serial LCD and all the input was from a barcode scanner that sent 
keypresses as a keyboard.

I tried to use pygame for reading the input, but I finally gave up. 
Without a window, pygame is just the wrong tool for the job.

I finally ended up using python's termios module. Here is a small 
wrapper that I used http://pastebin.com/q9xMVUSb

I also found the timeout module handy in combination with reading raw 
stdin, but whether or not it will be useful for your program I don't know.

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James Paige

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:05:59PM -0700, winkleink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running pygame in a raspberry pi.
> The program I am writing has no graphical interface and I am connecting
> using SSH (Putty from a Windows XP computer)
> 
> I want to capture a key press (with no graphical interface) and take action.
> Below is my code.  From what I can tell it should work.
> 
> Any advice greatly appreciated.
> 
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