[OT] Wireless remote events? - resolved
Frank D. Engel, Jr.
fde101 at fjrhome.net
Wed Sep 29 14:54:56 EDT 2004
Sounds like fun. If I ever get any free time again and feel bored, I
might try it...
It shouldn't be too hard. Create a stack with each "slide" on a
different card, hide the title bar, hide the menu bar/dock, and set the
stack so that it is centered with a size matching that of the screen.
Scale the contents accordingly...
Put those controls in a rawKeyDown handler in the stack script, and
bingo?
On Sep 29, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> I picked up a Kensington Wireless Presentation Remote today in hopes
>> of using it when presenting at Rev seminars like
>> <http://techietours.com>.
>> But while Kensington normally makes pretty good stuff, the manual
>> only says "Works with most presentation software like PowerPoint and
>> Keynote", and it doesn't say what events it's sending. Since I make
>> my own presentations in Rev I need to know what events it uses so I
>> can write handlers for them.
>> Here's the weird part:
>> I made a fresh stack and put in rawKeyDown, rawKeyUp, appleEvent,
>> arrowKey, functionKey, keyDown and keyUp handlers -- none of them get
>> triggered when I try using the wireless device.
>
> Don't know why (probably just user error here), but today I tried
> rawKeyDown again and it works. Kinda fun. So it's really easy to write
> apps that support standard wireless presentation devices -
>
> Here's how the buttons match up to their keyboard equivalents on the
> Kensington model:
>
> laser pointer
> /
>
> [*]
>
> rawKeyDown 65365 - [<] [>] - rawKeyDown 65366
> Key: Page Down Key: Page Up
> Action: Previous Slide [.] Action: Next Slide
>
> \
> rawKeyDown 98
> Key: "b"
> Action: Blank Screen
>
>
> Kensington says these are the "standard" controls that drive
> presentation apps, including Keynote and PowerPoint. It's nice to see
> reasonable conventions universally applied. Given all the hardware
> out there that supports these it may be useful to adopt them in your
> own software if you're making a presentation tool.
>
> With so many Rev conferences this year I keep daydreaming that someone
> will start an open source presentation tool and runtime library in
> Transcript. Any chance we could toss one together in time to make all
> of our presentations for Malta? :)
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Media Corporation
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Frank D. Engel, Jr. <fde101 at fjrhome.net>
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Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
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