keyboardlayout

A python library to display different keyboards. Works with pygame or tkinter.

If you need to show your users a graphic that shows a specific keyboard layout or a portion of a keyboard, this is the library for you.

Features:

• shows a keyboard to the user
• keyboard layouts
  • qwerty
  • azerty laptop
• graphics backends
  • pygame (uses sprite groups)
  • tkinter (uses frames + labels)
• customize the keyboard with sizes, colors, key margin, padding, font, location, etc
• update a specific key with update_key
• can update key images when keys are pressed

Changelog

https://github.com/spacether/keyboardlayout/tree/master/CHANGELOG.md

Documentation

https://spacether.github.io/keyboardlayout/

Examples

qwerty with colors

qwerty

azerty laptop

Installation

Make sure that you are using Python3

pip install keyboardlayout

Samples

• pygame, qwerty
• pygame, pressed keys
• tkinter, qwerty
• tkinter, pressed keys

Usage

tkinter example

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.font as tkf

import keyboardlayout as kl
import keyboardlayout.tkinter as klt

layout_name = kl.LayoutName.QWERTY
key_size = 60
grey = '#bebebe'
dark_grey = '#414141'
keyboard_info = kl.KeyboardInfo(
    position=(0, 0),
    padding=2,
    color=dark_grey
)
window = tk.Tk()
window.resizable(False, False)
key_info = kl.KeyInfo(
    margin=10,
    color=grey,
    txt_color=dark_grey,
    txt_font=tkf.Font(family='Arial', size=key_size//4),
    txt_padding=(key_size//6, key_size//10)
)
letter_key_size = (key_size, key_size)  # width, height
keyboard_layout = klt.KeyboardLayout(
    layout_name,
    keyboard_info,
    letter_key_size,
    key_info,
    master=window
)
window.mainloop()

Local Installation

# make and activate virtual env
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# if you want to edit the program and have the library use your edits
make develop

# to install separately in your virtual environment
make install

Test

make test