Hello Everybody!!!
I have a problem with SystemTray and PyQt…
I want to write little project, which calculate how many times we press “ENTER”

when I minimize my program to “tray” and open another window then press “ENTER”, in this case program doesn't calucalate. How can I running my program in SystemTray?

my code is the following…

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtCore
from PyQt4 import QtGui

class SystemTrayIcon(QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon.__init__(self, parent)
self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon(“icon.jpg”))
self.mainMenu = QtGui.QMenu(parent)
#==================== M E N U ====================
systemInformation = self.mainMenu.addAction(“System Information”)
aboutButton = self.mainMenu.addAction(“About”)
exitButton = self.mainMenu.addAction(“Exit”)
self.setContextMenu(self.mainMenu)
#==================== EVENT ======================
self.connect(systemInformation,QtCore.SIGNAL('triggered()'),self.keyPressEvent)
self.connect(aboutButton,QtCore.SIGNAL('triggered()'),self.showAbout)
self.connect(exitButton,QtCore.SIGNAL('triggered()'),self.appExit)

self.show()

def keyPressEvent(self, e):
if e.key() == QtCore.Qt.Key_Enter: # IT DOESN'T WORK WHEN I MINIMIZE PROGRAM
print “some text”
def showAbout(self):
QtGui.QMessageBox.information(QtGui.QWidget(), self.tr(“About Tunarium”), self.tr(“Your text here.”))

def appExit(self):
sys.exit()

if __name__ == “__main__”:
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)

trayIcon = SystemTrayIcon()
trayIcon.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

Thanks!!!!

You can't capture key events when QT widget is not in focus. There is only platform depended ways to capture all key presses. Take a look at http://www.qtforum.org/article/33010/capturing-a-system-key-press-when-qt-form-is-not-in-focus-using-winevent.html

Also, if you only need to check if key is pressed on Windows, you can use GetAsyncKeyState function.

reclosedev
You can't capture key events when QT widget is not in focus. There is only platform depended ways to capture all key presses. Take a look at http://www.qtforum.org/article/33010/capturing-a-system-key-press-when-qt-form-is-not-in-focus-using-winevent.htmlAlso, if you only need to check if key is pressed on Windows, you can use GetAsyncKeyState function.

I download win32api, then put this piece of code in my program
if win32api.GetKeyState(win32con.VK_LSHIFT) & 0x8000:
print “some text”

no error, I minimize my program to Tray, then I press “Left Shift” it doesn't work.
can you say me…
how can I connect my program with key Event listener?

You need to check GetAsyncKeyState() in loop or with timer.
Try this
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pyhook/index.php?title=PyHook_Tutorial#tocpyHook_Tutorial4

Thank you very much!!