Pastebin

import tkinter as tk
import threading
import time

from flask import Flask
from flask import render_template, request

app = Flask(__name__)

class SharedState(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self):
        self._lock = threading.Lock()
        self._running = True

        # When screen is visible, we do not show any window
        self._screen_visible = True

    def toggle(self):
        # this gets called from the Flask thread to record a click
        with self._lock:
            # Toggle screen visibility
            self._screen_visible = not self._screen_visible
        return self._screen_visible

    def visible(self):
        # this gets called from the API thread to 'get' a click
        return self._screen_visible

    def stop(self):
        # called from either side to stop running
        app.logger.info("stop: setting running to false")

        with self._lock:
            self._running = False

    def running(self):
        return self._running

@app.route('/toggle')
def home():
    if request.method == 'GET':
        screen_visibility = app.config['SHARED'].toggle()
    return render_template('screenserver.html', screen_visibility = screen_visibility)


def webserver(shared_state):
    app.config['SHARED'] = shared_state
    # It isn't safe to use the reloader in a thread
    app.run(host='127.0.0.1', debug=True, use_reloader=False)

def main():
    shared_state = SharedState()
    api_thread = threading.Thread(target=webserver, args=(shared_state,))
    api_thread.start()

    while shared_state.running():
        app.logger.debug("while shared_state.running():")
        time.sleep(0.1)

        root = tk.Tk()
        if not shared_state.visible():
            # if state is NOT visible, hide the screen by showing the window
            screen_width = root.winfo_screenwidth()
            screen_height = root.winfo_screenheight()

            ### FIXME: In dev-mode, do not fill the entire screen
            screen_height, screen_width = "100", "200"

            root.attributes('-alpha', 0.0) #For icon
            root.iconify()
            window = tk.Toplevel(root)
            window.geometry("%sx%s" % (screen_width, screen_height))
            window.configure(background='black', cursor='none')

            # No border
            window.overrideredirect(1)

            # Always on top
            window.attributes('-topmost', 1)

            window.mainloop()

        else:
            # if state IS visible, show the screen by closing the window
            print("Destroying root")
            try:
                root.destroy()
            except Exception as e:
                print(e)
                pass

    api_thread.join()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()