Reading commands from Apple's remote control

[Terry Judd]

Sarah - take a look at Twisted Melon's Mira. You can use it to control
pretty much any application, so there might be some way to hook it in with
Rev.

Terry...


On 24/4/08 11:13 AM, "Sarah Reichelt" <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Since most Macs now ship with Apple's remote control, I thought it
> would be neat to be able to accept input from the controller in a Rev
> application. Pressing the menu button puts me into Front Row, but I
> though I could use the others, however no luck so far. The plus &
> minus buttons change the system volume, but as far as I can tell, the
> others do nothing except in Front Row. I tried checking for rawKeyDown
> in a Rev stack, but didn't get anything.
> 
> So, has anyone done this, or does anyone have any ideas? At this stage
> I am assuming that I would need some third-party utility to translate
> the remote control to keystrokes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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Dr Terry Judd
Lecturer in Educational Technology (Design)
Biomedical Multimedia Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
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