ChopExecute eats CPU

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Hi! Please help me with these questions.

I work on a project using Snap Camera. I need to change presets on it so i use a chopexecute which runs the following.

from pyautogui import hotkey

hotkey(‘ctrl’, ‘r’)

which is a hotkey in Snapcam.

My Project normaly runs at 30 fps. triggering the ChopExecute drops it to 20 for a moment. Inspecting it with probe showed it spiking to 100 msec. Is there something i am missing? Is it that intensive of a process created by this code snippet? Do i need to do the import beforehand once or does that not matter? Is hotkey a bad way to access Snapcam, is there an alternative or am i just out of luck?

thanks a lot in advance

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I solved it by using Midikey2key - a tool that converts midi into keyboard strokes and LoopMidi which creates a virtual midi connection btw TD and M2K. No cpu problems at all.

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