Binding a key to a tkinter window, with exception of the entry field

Question

Picture of my GUI for clarity

I made a tool that plays audio from youtube. I want it to pause when the spacebar is pressed. I do this by this piece of code:

win.bind('<space>',lambda event:funcPP(player, btnPP))

win is my window, funcPP is the play/pause function.

My problem is that I have also an Entry in my window (for searching videos) and of course it is impractical if the video pauses everytime when I search a new video and press Spacebar. And the real problem is that, once I have clicked the Entry field, the focus stays there. It doesn't go away after clicking somewhere else! This sabotages my Spacebar shortcut.

Any tips how I can solve this?

Answer 1

I found the solution.

With:

win.bind_all("<Button-1>", lambda event: event.widget.focus_set())

It is possible to put the focus whereever one clicks.

then:

win.bind('<space>',lambda event:funcPPTRANSFER(player))

To bind spacebar to the whole window

then:

def funcPPTRANSFER(player):
    if str(win.focus_get()) != str(".!entry"):
        funcPP(player)

Have the function check whether the spacebar was sent from the entry or from somwhere else in the window

EDIT: Another thing I found now: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56519799/18664063

if isinstance(event.widget,tk.Tk): #check if event widget is Tk root window

very nice function that might help as well in this project.