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On 5/22/2015 12:29 PM, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> 2 needs.  first is determining if NaturallySpeaking injects keycodes or
> ascii char into the windows input queue.  second is building a test
> widget to capture and display text.
>
> I think I can solve both of these by building a simple text widget
> (tkinter? qt? ??) to capture keycodes.  problem, is in <mumble><mumble>
> yrs of programming, I've never written a GUI interface so I have no idea
> where to start.  help, tutor, pointers to samples would be most welcome.

For tkinter, once you have seen a tutorial, look at
http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/web/index.html
and in particular ch.54 on events.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy