SikuliX

Issue with Hotkey

Asked by bitboy on 2021-02-20

I'm trying to set a hotkey to end a script which is running in the IDE.

===========================
def exitHotkey(event):
    print "Exit"
    exit()

Env.addHotkey(Key.ESC, 0, exitHotkey)
print "start"
wait(60)
print "stop"
===========================

But if i press the Hotkey, the script and the IDE is closed and i have to restart it.
I tried other hotkeys but no success. Calling the function manually works fine.

OS: Linuxmint 20.1 Cinnamon
Sikulix: 2.0.4

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

exit() cannot be used in the handler, since it stops the application here (hence the IDE).

You have to tell the main script, that the hotkey was pressed simply with a global variable:

def exitHotkey(event):
    global shouldStop
    Do.popup("stopping", 1)
    shouldStop = True

Env.addHotkey(Key.ESC, 0, exitHotkey)

shouldStop = False
while not shouldStop:
    wait(1)

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bitboy (zeus557) said : 		#2

Thx for your answer. What i had in mind was my own selected Hotkey for the combination SHIFT + ALT + c which immediately stops the running script and shows the IDE again.

Imagine having some time consuming functions in your main loop, so it could take a while until the exit() is really executed. This could be confusing.

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