Reading commands from Apple's remote control

David Bovill david at openpartnership.net
Thu Apr 24 12:27:49 EDT 2008


Yes - I use Mira - you can also use it to send AppleScripts to activate
specific Rev handlers...

2008/4/24 Terry Judd <tsj at unimelb.edu.au>:

> 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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