The title explains it self basically, I want to draw for example a rectangle on a specific coordinate on the screen, using Python, how to achieve this?
I hear PyGame mentioned frequently, but I need a solution that would allow me to click through the shape, and as far as I understand you definitely need a Pygame window to draw anything on the screen and that would prevent clicking on whatever it is underneath, am I correct?
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I'm trying to develop a code that open an image where you can select a point quit the mouse and drag to form a rectangle until you don't release the left button.
Then from python I should receive the starting coordinates and the height and width in pixel of the rectangle, how can I do it?
I saw that the packages argparse and cv2 can be used, but I don't really know how to approach it.
I won't do the job for you but I'm willing to help.
You will need 2 blocks of code:
an image displayer
a mouse-event listener
To start, you may forget about the image displayer. You may concentrate on the mouse listener while you draw your rectangle anywhere on the screen.
Select a mouse listener library. There are many on pypi.org.
I propose pynput because it is easy to work with and is well documented.
read documentation (focus on "on_click")
write your code to implement your mouse listener. It's simple (less than 10 lines). At the end of your program, add a statement:
input(">")
run your program. Click anywhere on the screen and drag to another point. Release.
your on_click() function will be called twice (once for button press and once for button release). Record the two sets of X-Y coordinates (unit is pixels).
once the button is released, compute the size of the rectangle (in pixels).
press any key on the keyboard to end the program.
Once your program is working you may work on the imager. If the image is large, you may have to use a scaling factor to reduce it. You will have to introduce the scaling factor in your sizing equations.
When a program skeleton will exist, do not hesitate to ask questions.
Asking for help when there is no visible sweat will not bring you many answers.
I still have been studying world of Kivy and I have encountered with question. I am designing an interface. it has to have an appearance of analog device with arrow and curved scale like old voltmeters were. Just to display a data on the screen. I've tried to use canvas, but I stacked with resizing of window properties. Built canvas object was either connected to specific size in px, or changed location on the screen in wrong way. So, I am curious, maybe here are some others ways to embed objects which were built in another 2d graphics library, I am aware of existence of 3d module vpython and turtle. Maybe we have some more?
Can anybody give me a hint? I would be very grateful
kivy, canvas
view of my prototype
You can use Image widgets combined with Button Behavior or ToggleButton Behavior to make buttons that look like almost any kind of button that you like. And you can make a curved scale as described in this question.
I am pretty new to Python and coding in general. I have been working on a program that is similar in nature to ms paint. So far, I've added the capabilities to create multi-colored rectangles, lines, ovals, and really any polygon.
I've been using the tkinter GUI. I've been wanting to add a fill command, but I'm kind of stuck as to how to start it. My idea for how it would work would be that it would check the color of the pixel the user is currently hovering over, then check up, down, left, and right for the same color in pixels. If it found that, it would change the color of those pixels (I guess by creating a really small rectangle object?). This would theoretically be able to fill an area. But, I really can't find anything on how to access the color of a pixel in tkinter.
I know the location is event.x and event.y for a specific event, but I can't find anything about pixel color. I don't really have any code written for it yet because I am unsure that tkinter can even access the color of a pixel and not just object colors.
Unfortunately, this isn't possible. I did some searching around, and found several other similar questions, but the general idea is that Tkinter does not support such a feature. It makes sense, considering that Tkinter is a GUI library.
I saw a suggestion somewhere, where an idea was proposed to create 1x1 rectangles using the Tkinter Canvas to basically mimic pixels. However, this method eventually leads into performance issues and lagging, so it's not really recommended either.
You may want to try exploring some other libraries to work together with Tkinter. You can keep the Tkinter GUI, but use an image manipulation library or something similar which integrates well with Tkinter, for the actual pixel drawing.
I'm trying to make a programm with python to take screenshots out of a rectangle you draw on your screen, but first, I'd prefer to determine the dimensions. How can I do that? How can I draw a rectangle and then get the size of it? I'm trying to use pyautogui or PILLOW, but I still need practice. I also thought about using tkinter to make a transparent window and then doing it from there, but I can't figure out how to do it on Lubuntu 18.04.
And if you have any other recommendations or advice about the screenshot part, It's welcome!
Hope the problem it's clear, thank you in advance! ;)
I am working on tiny program to capture screen print, I want to do it in a similar fashion that Win Snipping Tool is working. First I need to overlay all screens with a 50% opacity layer and then, using the mouse, draw a rectangle and read vertices coordinates. Honestly, I have no idea how to bite this. I tried with win32api / gui and it is great to get mouse coordinates, but still was unable to draw a rectangle. My idea (one of many) is to (using PIL / ImageGrab) take shots of both displays, put an overlay and print them as a full screen on all windows, but I failed while doing this. Other idea is to take img grab and create two new windows using BeeWare / Toga (that is GUI framework I am using) in full screen, but I was unable to find any method to open window on second display. Any ideas and hints will be greatly appreciated, I am really counting on you, as I feel I reached dead end.
Well,It is very easy to use tkinter.
Ok,It is the principle when I make my screenshot application:
User presses the button to start.
Make a new window whose width and height should full cover all the screens,and hide the title bar(If it is had to achieve,maybe use width=9999 and height=9999).
Take a screenshot of all the desktop(You can use ImageGrab.grab((),all_screens=True)) to do that.
Make the screenshot showed in a Canvas(I know that toga have this widget).
Start your mouse listener thread and save the position of pressed.
When user moves his mouse,create a rectangle(toga's Canvas have a function rect()).Maybe use this rect(pressed_x,pressed_y,move_x,move_y).And delete the last rectangle(Then it will always show only one rectangle).
When user released his mouse,save the position of released.And use ImageGrab.grab((pressed_x,pressed_y,released_x,released_y),all_screens=True) to crop the selected area.
If you want to show it in application interface.toga has a widget called ImageView.You can put the image in it.