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dave
dave

Reputation: 1637

How to emulate press and hold with pywin32

I am trying to write a python script to send a press and hold key signal. Right now all I have managed to do is the following:

import win32com.client
shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("Wscript.Shell")
shell.SendKeys("z")

However, this only sends an instantaneous key pressed event. What I would like to do is a key down and key up, something along the lines of:

shell.SendKeys("z{down}")
time.sleep(.25) 
shell.SendKeys("z{up}")

But I cannot find any documented way to achieve this.

EDIT: I also tried something along the lines of this:

import time
import win32com.client
import win32api
import win32gui
import win32con

time.sleep(2)
shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("Wscript.Shell")
win32api.SendMessage(win32con.HWND_TOP, win32con.WM_CHAR, 90, 0) 
win32api.SendMessage(win32con.HWND_BROADCAST, win32con.WM_KEYDOWN, 90, 1) 
time.sleep(.25)
win32api.SendMessage(win32con.HWND_BROADCAST, win32con.WM_KEYUP, 90, 1)

The whole HWND thing is really a mystery to me - from the documentation I can't figure out how the hell to grab the correct window. Also, WM_CHAR seems to work, but WM_KEYDOWN/KEYUP hasn't really done anything.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4986

Answers (2)

jingojangomambojumbo
jingojangomambojumbo

Reputation: 1

You can also press and hold mouse button, for left button see following example (someone may find it useful even though it is not about keyboard..):

import win32api, win32con
import time

win32api.mouse_event(win32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN,500,500,0,0) #left mouse click and hold at 500px from left and 500px from upper edge of display
time.sleep(10)                                                  # wait 10 seconds
win32api.mouse_event(win32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP,500,500,0,0)   #left mouse button release

Upvotes: 0

Janne Karila
Janne Karila

Reputation: 25207

You can use win32api.PostMessage to send WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP messages. See MSDN for documentation of the parameters. The constants are defined in win32con module.

Upvotes: 1

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