Keyboard: CTRL+LEFT or CTRL+RIGHT doesn't work in DivX Playa

[Ron]

http://www.girder.nl/help/faq.php#103

[Ron]

For the message numbers you generally need some information from the developers. I tried to contact them some time ago, but they decided that remote control is not important to them and ignored me or they never read my email because it got lost in the bulk of the emails that they get :-( . So you'll have to petition with them.

[Ares]

I was writing a program to control The Playa from the DivX 5 package.

All functions can be automated using girder, except the functions which make the playa such a cool program: fast forward and rewind.
The shortcut keys are CTRL+RIGHT and CTRL+LEFT, resp.
For some reason, girder is unable to perform these key combinations,
while the stop command, CTRL+SPACE does work ok!

How come?

Ares

[Ares]

The problem with the DivX Player is as follows:

Normally, you can automate actions in programs in 3 different ways:
1. Capture the command
2. Use shortcut keys
3. Use sendmessage
(isn't it?)

So option 2 did not work (only with CTRL+LEFT/ CTRL+RIGHT, the other shortcut keys work perfectly!)

Option 1 did not work either: I noticed that in programs that do not use the standard Windows GUI, but their own GUI, that some window buttons don't produce any result when trying to capture them.

So option 3 is the only option. What is the best strategy: use the command-tab (and WM_COMMAND) or use the SendMessage plug-in?

Concerning the SendMessage plug-in, I have a general question: how to determine the Message Number?
And a question about WM_COMMAND: there is a remark in the capture window saying that one might need to tune the wPARAM and lPARAM; what is a sensible strategy? I don't have any idea.

Ares