The goal of the Virtual Remote is to always create events that are identical to those of the Apple® driver for the Apple® Remote.

As part of the OS 10.6.2 update, Apple® also included a new version of its Apple® Remote driver. We have of course adapted Remote Buddy's Virtual Remote to take the changes in the new driver version into account.

For applications, whose Apple® Remote support relies on internals (more precisely: the layout of the HID descriptor) of the Apple® driver, every change in this area means that its developers need to manually adjust their applications' Apple® Remote support to be compatible with the new OS release. This has already been the case when updating from OS 10.4 to 10.5, its the case again with OS 10.6.2. And chances are, this won't have been the last time.

Developers, who want to free their applications from such dependencies and improve their compatibility, are invited to use our HIDRemote Class, which we make available free of charge.

If you as a user are affected by this problem, we can offer you a solution as well. Being aware of this problem, we have built a compatibility mode into Remote Buddy's driver. Due to general considerations, we currently don't include the ability to enable this mode from inside Remote Buddy at this point, though. To activate this mode, please download Candelair and, in Candelair's preferences, turn on the "Legacy compatibility mode". Remote Buddy's driver then emulates the version of the Apple® driver as used from OS 10.5 to 10.6.1, under OS 10.6.2.