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Is there any way to stop read_hotkey() programmatically?

See original GitHub issue

read_hotkey() will block and wait user presses and releases a hotkey, but is there any way to stop it with program?

I’m working on a program which allows users to input a hotkey from keyboard, and push a button to cancel hotkey input. So I need to stop blocking when the “cancel” button is pushed.

I have read whole API doc but can’t find a method to do it. Is anyone has an idea? Or maybe I miss something in the doc?

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Created 2 years ago
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bopprehcommented, Aug 30, 2021

That’s exactly what I was suggesting! Not a bad idea at all.

You could make the solution a bit cleaner by using a threading.Event object instead of an array holding a boolean. This would help communicating to future programmers (including yourself in the future) how this feature works; but the actual bytecode that will be executed is practically identical.

I actually use something similar in the hotkey hooks with a custom class and adding extra attributes, but in that case it’s not justified and feels hacky. The new version won’t have that anymore.

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bopprehcommented, Aug 31, 2021

Good luck!

I’ll go ahead and close the ticket. The answer to the title question is “not yet, but it’s planned”.