import PySimpleGUI as sg # import PySimpleGUIQt as sg """ tkinter and Qt do not "activate" buttons by pressing the ENTER key with the button highlighted / in focus This demo will enable the application to click on a button if the button has focus (is highlighted) and the user presses the ENTER key. NOTE that the SPACE BAR works correctly out of the box with both tkinter and Qt. If a button has focus and you press the space bar, then tkinter and Qt will both consider that a button click. But not so with the ENTER key. The solution is for your program to read the keyboard presses and act upon those directly. It's trivial logic in the end: 1. Get a key press 2. See if the key is the ENTER key 3. Find the Element that currently has focus 4. Click the Button if the Element with focus is a button """ QT_ENTER_KEY1 = 'special 16777220' QT_ENTER_KEY2 = 'special 16777221' layout = [ [sg.T('Test of Enter Key use')], [sg.In(key='_IN_')], [sg.Button('Button 1', key='_1_')], [sg.Button('Button 2', key='_2_')], [sg.Button('Button 3', key='_3_')], ] window = sg.Window('My new window', layout, return_keyboard_events=True) while True: # Event Loop event, values = window.Read() if event is None: break if event in ('\r', QT_ENTER_KEY1, QT_ENTER_KEY2): # Check for ENTER key elem = window.FindElementWithFocus() # go find element with Focus if elem is not None and elem.Type == sg.ELEM_TYPE_BUTTON: # if it's a button element, click it elem.Click() # check for buttons that have been clicked elif event == '_1_': print('Button 1 clicked') elif event == '_2_': print('Button 2 clicked') elif event == '_3_': print('Button 3 clicked')