Some way to detect repeating?

[seletskiy]

I want to make it possible for screenkey to act as key logger for analyzing my productivity. But it looks like python-xlib is lacking of required sequence_number field in XKeyEvent structure, which is required to detect key repeating. I have decent repeat rate/delay (140/100), so I do not want to pollute history of logged keys.

Do you have any ideas how to achieve that?

[wavexx]

On 19/08/15 14:54, Stanislav Seletskiy wrote:

I want to make it possible for screenkey to act as key logger for
/analyzing my productivity/. But it looks like python-xlib is lacking of
required sequence_number field in XKeyEvent structure, which is required
to detect key repeating. I have decent repeat rate/delay (140/100), so I
do not want to pollute history of logged keys.

Do you have any ideas how to achieve that?

I had to ditch python-xlib, since it didn't really allow to use XKB.

If all you need is the sequence number, it's already in there.
In keylistener.py:247 the event you (as long as is a
KeyPress/KeyRelease) contains ev.xkey.serial.

You could call XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat so that KeyRelease is never
generated until the key is truly removed.

You can also detect a repeat by checking a release followed by a repeat
with the same ev.xkey.time, which wouldn't need to call
XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat.

keylistener.py contains a self-test at the bottom when run stand-alone.

[wavexx]

I pushed some code to detect key repeat. I think it could be useful (maybe) to show the repeat in a different way.

I tried to change the color of the text to grey for repeats, but I find it distracting.
In any case, if you try keylistener, there's a new field "repeated" which you can use.

[seletskiy]

@wavexx: Wow, thank you! Get ready to accept new PR 😄

[wavexx]

I guess we can close this