Simulating a keyboard press with an Xlobby button

[Chazotta]

I can't work out whether Albert's plugin allows this or not. I have posted a similar message over there.

Essentially what I am trying to do is to make xlobby trigger or simulate various keyboard presses (ie: when I press a button in Xlobby using my tablet it will simulate pressing the CTRL key and the D key).

What I would like to do is to control another application with xlobby which uses keyboard shortcuts.

It seems that in the Trigger section of Xlobby (under Events) that it is not finished yet. Is this true or am I missing something - can this be done ?

thanks

[dgemily]

I think you can use events os:send message to simulate a keyboard fonction for a specific programme.
you can use girder to find the corresponding wparam and lparam.
look at this documentation, to understand how to do it : http://www.france.xlobby.com/forum/TRMC/howto_tv_en.htm

later

[Chazotta]

Thanks for that. I had a feeling there was a simple way to do it with Girder. I will give it a try and report back.

You French guys are amazing. Its a pitty I can't speak French, otherwise I would be spending a whole lot of time on the French forum.

regards

[dgemily]

Thanks for that. I had a feeling there was a simple way to do it with Girder. I will give it a try and report back.

in fact you don't need really girder, on the documentation it use girder only to catch wparam and lparam. then we need only xlobby you can use also some others softwares to find wparam and lparam.

later

[Chazotta]

Quite so... and by the way do you know where Girder 3.29b can be downloaded ?

I had a problem trying it following the tutorial. For some reason when I go to capture the keyboard press within the App, it does not capture it. It only captures mouse clicks ? So in a round about way I was able to capture one of the commands within the App last night but I had to activate it by mouse click. I am wondering whether the capture function only works for mouse clicks ?

[dgemily]

Quite so... and by the way do you know where Girder 3.29b can be downloaded ?

here

I had a problem trying it following the tutorial. For some reason when I go to capture the keyboard press within the App, it does not capture it. It only captures mouse clicks ? So in a round about way I was able to capture one of the commands within the App last night but I had to activate it by mouse click. I am wondering whether the capture function only works for mouse clicks ?

you should able to capture the keyboard press... click with the mouse first ( to give the focus to your soft) then use keyboard.

but it's not working with every software...

[Chazotta]

you should able to capture the keyboard press... click with the mouse first ( to give the focus to your soft) then use keyboard.

I did, but it did not work.

but it's not working with every software...

Maybe this is the problem, but maybe there is a certain Girder plugin you need which was not stated in the tutorial.

Thanks for uploading the RAR file.

[dgemily]

let me know which software do you want to control, I will try to keep an eye on it, ( if I have some free time )...

[Chazotta]

I still can't get it to work. I wonder whether you need the sendmessage plugin enabled in Girder ?

This is the program - http://www.digitalnow.com.au/dntvlive/index.html
Download: v1.1.7 here: http://www.digitalnow.com.au/dntvlive/download.html

I have a DNTVLive card and an older TwinHan VisionPlus HDTV card.

One thing I noticed is that when I followed the tutorial to use Girder to capture the commands, when I have the DNTVLive App running, Girder shows to .exe instances, one relating to TMain and one to TApplication (For the class name). This could be a problem ?

I know use guys use ProgDVB but I had a look at this and I don't think that my cards are supported by it - although ProgDVB looked a bit complicated and I left it.

[dgemily]

I still can't get it to work. I wonder whether you need the sendmessage plugin enabled in Girder ?

you don't need any plugin for that.

One thing I noticed is that when I followed the tutorial to use Girder to capture the commands, when I have the DNTVLive App running, Girder shows to .exe instances, one relating to TMain and one to TApplication (For the class name). This could be a problem ?

yep, I tried and this is the problem... there is not a specific window classname for this application...that why, I told you, this is not working for every softwares ( It's the same problem with vlc, google earth etc...)
we need an other plugin or addon for that....

can you tell me, which others software support yours tv cards ? it's just for my information.....

later, and sorry to can not help you and maybe to direct you in a wrong way...

[Chazotta]

can you tell me, which others software support yours tv cards ? it's just for my information.....

DigitalWatch - http://nate.dynalias.net/index.html 2.0.1.3 is the latest version. The only other software I know of is using the DC-DVBSource filter my DCoder and using a player like Zoomplayer. This is a fantastic filter and great result because you can zoomplayer for both movies and TV. My only problem with it at the moment is my HDTV channels are not perfectly smooth, so I am wondering whether my PC is either playing up or is under spec to play it perfectly smooth - http://www.dsp-worx.de/index.php?n=11

later, and sorry to can not help you and maybe to direct you in a wrong way...

No problem at all. I like to try new things even if it means that there is a better solution somewhere else. I appreciate your help.

P.S I tried to run ProgDVB again because the new version is supposed to support BDA driver compatible cards, but it crashes everytime I try to scan the channels. It obviusly doen't like my card. Do you use this software for TV?

[dgemily]

DigitalWatch - http://nate.dynalias.net/index.html 2.0.1.3 is the latest version. The only other software I know of is using the DC-DVBSource filter my DCoder and using a player like Zoomplayer. This is a fantastic filter and great result because you can zoomplayer for both movies and TV. My only problem with it at the moment is my HDTV channels are not perfectly smooth, so I am wondering whether my PC is either playing up or is under spec to play it perfectly smooth - http://www.dsp-worx.de/index.php?n=11

I heard about this filter on the french forum, maybe there is an issue using it with zoomplayer or MPC. but for the moment there is not plan to integrate it in xltv.
does mytheatre support your card ?

P.S I tried to run ProgDVB again because the new version is supposed to support BDA driver compatible cards, but it crashes everytime I try to scan the channels. It obviusly doen't like my card. Do you use this software for TV?

I'm not using progdvb, I don't have a dvb card. I use K!tv but I'm sure it doesn't support your card.. maybe in a next version ....

later...

[Chazotta]

...does mytheatre support your card ?

Yes it does. I had a quick look and it seems to work ok except I had a little bit of trouble scanning all the channels. Do you know if this application can be controlled by Xlobby ? I had never even heard of it.

Essentially all I am trying to do is find a stable Xlobby solution to control TV. Its probably not going to happen ?? !!

[dgemily]

Essentially all I am trying to do is find a stable Xlobby solution to control TV. Its probably not going to happen ?? !!

it's done for me using xltv ( awesome plugin...)

Badubo should integrate mytheatre in a next version of xltv

[Chazotta]

it's done for me using xltv ( awesome plugin...) Badubo should integrate mytheatre in a next version of xltv

WHich applications currently support/intergrate with xltv ?