Vista MCE control

[Francois]

Thanks to Ron's addition of a new Action (Keyboard foreground), it is now possible to control Vista MCE with any remote, or like any other application controlled by Girder...

There are a couple of quirks at the moment (using the girder524-pre file posted in the feature requests thread):

- VMC has to be the foreground application, which it probably is unless one runs VMC on a dual screen PC, or windowed, while simultaneously using other applications

- The keyboard emulation using T9/Numkeys doesn't work out of the box (it may be possible to emulate it, although this will be trick to synchronize with the display)

- The keyboard shortcuts which rely on the 'Alt' key (Home Menu/Launch VMC, Close, Windowed/Full screen toggle) don't use the new method, but the conventional Keyboard action does work once VMC is running... I'm wondering if this is a feature in the first version of Keyboard foreground action. :D

Otherwise everything works very well, and I shall be posting a simple plugin very soon (Days) for one way control of VMC.

The next challenge is to have two way control (in Lua)... but I'll leave it to others, who are more advanced along the path (this would enable LCD displays, monitoring from a web browser, etc)

Francois

[Ron]

- The keyboard shortcuts which rely on the 'Windows' key (Home Menu/Launch VMC, Close, Windowed/Full screen toggle) don't use the new method, but the conventional Keyboard action does work once VMC is running... I'm wondering if this is a feature in the first version of Keyboard foreground action. :D

Is there some key combination that is not working?

[Francois]

Ron,

None the key combinations where the Alt key is involved work with the new method (but the conventional 'Keyboard' action works fine with these combinations).

They are:

Close: Alt+F4

Return to main menu: Win + Alt + Enter (this should also start VMC when it is not running, for perfect emulation)

Toggle full screen/windowed mode: Alt + Enter

Everything else works fine

[Ron]

Awesome!! Glad to have that working now.

[Francois]

Here is a simple GML which should enable to control Vista MCE from within Girder 5.

For it to work with build 523, you will also need to follow the instruction in the following post:

http://www.promixis.com/forums/showpost.php?p=120702&postcount=39

If it works for others, I will post the GML in the download section for easier access

Enjoy

Francois

[Ron]

Thanks for contributing.