How do I run a small external program from Freepie?

[Blamm-0]

Suppose I want to have a keyboard key which when pressed once, runs nomousy.exe with a parameter, to hide the mouse cursor:

nomousy.exe /hide

Then I press the key again to run:

nomousy.exe

...which brings the cursor back again. So it's a toggle on-off mouse cursor.

I can't find how to run external programs from Freepie!

[Jabberwock]

This seems to work:

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import subprocess

if keyboard.getPressed(Key.A):
	subprocess.call(['C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\calc.exe'])

[zelmon64]

I didn't know of the subprocess python module so I had a go at adding open and close functions to the window plugin. It can be used like this:

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program = "notepad"
windowopen = False
if starting:
	windowopen = window.open(program, r'/A "settings.xml"')

if stopping:
	windowopen = window.closeMainWindow(program)

diagnostics.watch(windowopen)
diagnostics.watch(window.getActive)

@Jabberwock do you if adding these functions to the window plugin would have any benefits over the subprocess module?

[Jabberwock]

I have no idea, as I have just found the code online...

[Blamm-0]

Thanks both, your ideas have helped me make progress, I'll keep fiddling for a while

[Blamm-0]

I'm having trouble. I want to hide the mouse cursor with a toggle hotkey, using a tiny utility called nomousy.exe

Usage: hide cursor -- execute "nomousy.exe /hide"
show cursor again -- execute "nomousy.exe"


Suppose the cursor has been hidden by a successful call of
nomousy.exe /hide

Then, this works in Freepie to unhide the cursor:

import subprocess

if keyboard.getPressed(Key.ScrollLock):
subprocess.call(['C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\nomousy.exe'])


But I cannot get Freepie to do the hiding bit successfully, e.g.
subprocess.call(['C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\nomousy.exe /hide'])

I have tried many variations of path and syntax, different combos of quotation marks, etc. with no luck. It seems I don't know the right code to add a parameter to a program call. What do you think?

By the way I didn't understand the code about the 'window plugin' because I don't know what the 'window plugin' is, I'm afraid.

I've attached nomousy for your cursor-hiding pleasure!

[Jabberwock]

It seems it has to be a list of arguments, so possibly:

subprocess.call(["C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\nomousy.exe", "/hide"])

[Jabberwock]

There is also this:

http://nullege.com/codes/search/pygame. ... et_visible

but I do not know how to make pygame work with FreePIE.