James - thank you. I will have a look at your code. I was getting the feeling that this is how Pygame works.
Pygame will read a USB gamepad without any display. So, somehow a gamepad is different to a keyboard. Again, thank you for your help. Albert. On 30 May 2013 03:50, James Paige [via pygame-users] < ml-node+s25799n723...@n6.nabble.com> wrote: > A couple years ago I was trying to do something very similar. It wasn't > a raspbery pi, but it was a very small fanless linux box running debian. > In production, it had no monitor and never ran X. All the output was to > a serial LCD and all the input was from a barcode scanner that sent > keypresses as a keyboard. > > I tried to use pygame for reading the input, but I finally gave up. > Without a window, pygame is just the wrong tool for the job. > > I finally ended up using python's termios module. Here is a small > wrapper that I used http://pastebin.com/q9xMVUSb > > I also found the timeout module handy in combination with reading raw > stdin, but whether or not it will be useful for your program I don't know. > > --- > James Paige > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:05:59PM -0700, winkleink wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm running pygame in a raspberry pi. > > The program I am writing has no graphical interface and I am connecting > > using SSH (Putty from a Windows XP computer) > > > > I want to capture a key press (with no graphical interface) and take > action. > > Below is my code. From what I can tell it should work. > > > > Any advice greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/Using-Pygame-to-capture-key-presses-for-CLI-prgram-tp719.html > > Sent from the pygame-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/Using-Pygame-to-capture-key-presses-for-CLI-prgram-tp719p723.html > To unsubscribe from Using Pygame to capture key presses for CLI prgram?, > click > here<http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=719&code=d2lua2xlaW5rQGdtYWlsLmNvbXw3MTl8LTIxMDEwMjExNzE=> > . > NAML<http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > -- View this message in context: http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/Using-Pygame-to-capture-key-presses-for-CLI-prgram-tp719p724.html Sent from the pygame-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
