[pygtk] catching all keyboard/mouse events

[m.c.wilkins at massey.ac.nz]

Hi,

> Maybe this post will help you a bit:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pygtk@daa.com.au/msg19101.html

Yes thank you, it did.  It talks of using keybinder.  Unfortunately
that requires binding a particular key combo to a handler (not just
any key, or mouse).  However I downloaded keybinder and found in the
source that they were just using add_filter on the gtk.gdk.Window.

So that I am using a filter now to accept all events (supposedly).
This is my code:

def wakeup(event):
   if not need_to_do_something:
      return gtk.gdk.FILTER_CONTINUE
   # do stuff
   return gtk.gdk.FILTER_CONTINUE

rootwin = gtk.gdk.get_default_root_window()
rootwin.set_events(gtk.gdk.ALL_EVENTS_MASK)
rootwin.add_filter(wakeup)

The only problem with this is that event.type is always
<enum GDK_NOTHING of type GdkEventType>
and I don't receive all events, keyboard ones don't get through, which
is odd.  However, it does work well enough for me at the moment.

Thanks for your help

Matt