Hotkey weirdness

[rembetis]

I have a JP1-compatible remote control, to which I have taught many of the buttons of my wireless IR keyboard (Lite-On SK 7500). I want to setup a few hotkeys to trigger Xlobby's music control events (play, pause, stop, next, previous). This is all on my basement service machine (I have a USB-UIRT on my main setup, but don't want to buy another).

I tried using the old XLhotkey plugin, and managed to get the keyboard itself to work (when I press "P" on the keyboard, music plays. When I hit "S" music stops) but when I try to hit the exact same key with my remote, nothing happens, despite the fact that in separate programs (Internet Explorer, for instance) pressing those same buttons produces a "P" and an "S".

Can anybody help me understand why this isn't working?

Or perhaps suggest another internal way to integrate Xlobby hotkeys? Maybe I'm overlooking something simple...

[rembetis]

Nevermind. I just used a separate app called AutoHotkey to do what I needed. It would be nice to have screen-specific hotkeys (as the XLhotkey plugin supposedly allows) but so be it...

[S Pittaway]

xlhotkey does work.

i used to do what you were trying to do - i used my nebula tv remote to send key presses to xlobby and used xlhotkey to vary there action depending on the screen i was on... it work without problems.

The only thing i can think of is that you remote isent sending the correct sequence of wm_keydown/up messages or something like that.


If you are really curious, rumage arround the internet and fiind a copy of spy++ and look at the messages being passed around.

[rembetis]

The only thing i can think of is that you remote isent sending the correct sequence of wm_keydown/up messages or something like that.

Thanks for the reply, Pittaway. After a little brainstorming, that was my thought as well, and in fact I remember the keyboard's protocol was written with a toggle-bit to control whether wm_keyup was sent or not. I guess I'll have to revist my remote's programming.