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AmirTheDev
AmirTheDev

Reputation: 25

Tkinter gui doesn't work Mouse and keyboard modules

I was trying to make an auto clicker using Mouse and keyboard modules and tkinter as the gui and wrote this code

#Import
import tkinter as tk
import random as r8
import keyboard as kb
import mouse as ms

class Application(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master=None):
        super().__init__(master)
        self.master = master
        self.pack()
        self.create_widgets()
        self.joesd()

    def create_widgets(self):
        self.joe = tk.Frame(self)#main frame
        self.joe.pack(fill=tk.BOTH)
        self.lbl = tk.Label(self.joe, text='Example text', height=5, width=30)
        self.lbl.pack(side="top")# where the label will be located
        self.lb = tk.Label(self.joe, text='Example Text', height=5, width=35)
        self.lb.pack(side="top")# where the label will be located
    def joesd(self):
        while True:
            if kb.is_pressed('q') == True:
                ms.press('left')
                ms.release('left')

root = tk.Tk() 
app = Application(master=root)
app.mainloop()

Then I noticed that the gui never appears but will appear if I removed

    def joesd(self):
        while True:
            if kb.is_pressed('q') == True:
                ms.press('left')
                ms.release('left')

What should I do?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 318

Answers (2)

acw1668
acw1668

Reputation: 47093

You should not use while loop in a tkinter application. You can register a callback using kb.on_press_key() instead:

class Application(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master=None):
        super().__init__(master)
        ...
        #self.joesd() # <- not necessary
        kb.on_press_key("q", self.on_key_press)

    ...

    def on_key_press(self, event):
        #print("q pressed", event)
        ms.press('left')
        ms.release('left')
        # above two lines can be replaced by ms.click('left')

Upvotes: 1

Delrius Euphoria
Delrius Euphoria

Reputation: 15098

The reason why GUI does not show up is that before the code hits mainloop() it goes into a infinite loop(while loop) and it cannot reach mainloop and hence window does not show up and events are not processed. So what you should do is get rid of while. One way is to use after() method to emulate while.

def joesd(self):
    if kb.is_pressed('q'):
        ms.press('left')
        ms.release('left')
        
    self.after(100,self.joesd)

This will repeat the function every 100 ms, you can reduce it to 1ms too. But make sure it is not too much for the system to handle.

Upvotes: 1

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