tungsteno74/pywinhook

A fork of pyHook from Peter P. with some updates

pywinhook's Issues

Installation on Windows 11 on arm fails

Hey everybody,

just wanted to report that the installation on Windows on arm fails with error: command 'swig.exe' failed: None.

Let me know if I could support to make pyWinhook Windows on arm compatible.

Greetings

Edit: ok, same on amd64 based system - so I guess it's probably unrelated to arm/amd64...

AttributeError: 'HookManager' object has no attribute 'keyboard_hook'

Code

import pyWinhook

hm = pyWinhook.HookManager()

Error

Exception ignored in: <function HookManager.__del__ at 0x00000260F1A4E558>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\pyWinhook\HookManager.py", line 279, in __del__
    self.UnhookKeyboard()
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\pyWinhook\HookManager.py", line 299, in UnhookKeyboard
    if self.keyboard_hook:
AttributeError: 'HookManager' object has no attribute 'keyboard_hook'
Exception ignored in: <function HookManager.__del__ at 0x00000260F1A4E558>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\pyWinhook\HookManager.py", line 279, in __del__
    self.UnhookKeyboard()
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\pyWinhook\HookManager.py", line 299, in UnhookKeyboard
    if self.keyboard_hook:
AttributeError: 'HookManager' object has no attribute 'keyboard_hook'
Exception ignored in: <function HookManager.__del__ at 0x00000260F1A4E558>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\pyWinhook\HookManager.py", line 279, in __del__
    self.UnhookKeyboard()
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\pyWinhook\HookManager.py", line 299, in UnhookKeyboard
    if self.keyboard_hook:
AttributeError: 'HookManager' object has no attribute 'keyboard_hook'

Solution

Open HookManager.py and change all key_hook words to keyboard_hook

Incorrect import paths on python3

I just installed pyWinhook on windows with python 3.6 and it threw an exception on import.
After looking into it, I changed from HookManager import * to from .HookManager import * and
import cpyHook to from . import cpyHook and it seems to work fine so far.

pyWinhook 1.6.1 release archive on GitHub contains pyWinhook 1.6.0

I'm not sure what went wrong there, maybe the release tag points to the wrong commit; in any case, when retrieving the source zip from https://github.com/Tungsteno74/pyWinhook/releases/tag/1.6.1, the archive contains pyWinhook 1.6.0, not 1.6.1. The sdist on PyPI is correct.

Unicode title error

if I switch widows than show this error message.

TypeError: KeyboardSwitch() missing 8 required positional arguments: 'msg', 'vk_code', 'scan_code', 'ascii', 'flags', 'time', 'hwnd', and 'win_name'

can you fix this error?
please help

Caret character (^) is duplicated

Whenever I'm running a script that uses pyHook in the background if I use the caret character, it gets input twice on my computer (actually typing in 2 times).

I am using a French AZERTY layout keyboard where pressing the ^ or ¨ key is not supposed to print any character, but rather wait for another character input to combine it. For example pressing ^ then e should print ê, but pressing ^ twice should print ^^.

EDIT: Just learnt about "dead keys" and how it's a known issue with pyWinhook, we can consider this issue closed as insolvable then.

is there a way to prevent OnKeyboardEvent(event) from "interrupting" device input?

I'm basically using the example.py supplied in this repo, but with a time.sleep(1) added at the end of OnKeyboardEvent(event). Is there any way to make it so this sleep (or any other slow code) doesnt interfere with mouse movement and normal keyboard inputs?

you can see the "issue(?)" in the gif below; when I start typing, the mouse starts lagging and I can only type 1 letter per second:
https://i.gyazo.com/bda25fe6d8f92a8935621fb7927dc9b7.mp4

When I use the program 'everything' (an portable version, not an installation version), pywinhook is unable to retrieve any keyboard and mouse messages.

When I open the window of the program "everything" (an portable version, not an installation version) and perform keyboard input and mouse click operations, pywinhook will no longer work properly and cannot obtain any keyboard and mouse messages. My os is win10 and and I use everything v1.4.1