Reading commands from Apple's remote control

[Sarah Reichelt]

Thanks everyone.I'll check out Mira & iRedLite.

Cgeers,
Sarah

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, David Bovill <david at openpartnership.net> wrote:
> 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>:
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>  > 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.