Global hotkeys for specific application with python3 on windows

Asked Mar 22 '18 at 17:18

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I'm writing a script to control a specific application with hotkeys. I divided my task into three tasks:

monitor for global keys,
match pressed global hotkeys to keys to be sent,
send keys to specific application.

Let's say i want to send Ctrl+A to Notepad.exe when i press Ctrl+F3 from anywhere. It's important that the application (notepad in this case) i want to control will not be in focus before i press hotkeys and after it.

I suppose task 3 is about to work with pywinauto and it's keyboard.SendKeys. Task 2 is not difficult. But i have no idea how to monitor (in cycle? depending on keyboard events?) for global hotkeys.

edited Mar 22 '18 at 19:06

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asked Mar 22 '18 at 17:18

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from pywinauto import win32_hooks – Vasily Ryabov Mar 22 '18 at 20:54
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Typing from phone. Will post normal answer later. – Vasily Ryabov Mar 22 '18 at 20:54

Global hotkeys for specific application with python3 on windows

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