#🔒 Draw a rectangle on my screen

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inland sundial
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Would anyone know if it's possible to create a rectangle from 2 clicks on your windows screen using python? I can do it on a screenshot but not live on the screen.

scarlet orchidBOT
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swift zenith
inland sundial
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I'm making an application where the user has to choose an area of his screen to capture by a screenshot with two clicks and I'd like that after these 2 clicks the area is surrounded by a rectangle.

swift zenith
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You could probably do this with pyqt

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draw a fully transparent widget on screen to detect clicks

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then 2 clicks to set the bounds of the rectangle

inland sundial
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OK thx i will try

primal slate
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for instance you could use the pynput library which is rather straight forward to get the mouse click coordinates

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and open a transparent window using pyQt (as fashoomp said) at the coordinates you get

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as for "drawing a rectangle" on your screen, that would require first to open a transparent window on your full screen and then draw a rectangle inside it
might be another way to do that actually since the mouse getter can be managed by Qt itself

swift zenith
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there's no need to use pynput in that case, you could record the coordinates using qt

primal slate
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it works outside of its window ?

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didnt know, mb then

swift zenith
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no, but the transparent window would be there to capture your input

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sort of like how the windows snipping tool works

primal slate
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ah yes, i didn't understand your first message

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i just said the same thing on the second part of mine 😄

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