User

20.05.2007 04:13:46

In future versions would it be possible for the Application Switcher (brought up using Command+Tab on the keyboard) to be in the Exposé group? It would be great to be able to control it and have a set of controls specifically for it until an application was chosen. The home button could bring it up and the + and - buttons could move left or right with another home press selecting the currently highlighted application. 

User

28.05.2007 17:45:01

Hello Drew,

thanks for asking.

The problem with this is - as far as I can see - that the application 
switcher only stays open for as long as you keep the Command modifier 
key pressed - which is currently not possible from within Remote 
Buddy: a key press right now can not take longer than its 
corresponding button press.

You can already switch applications with Remote Buddy's Application 
Manager (in the System category), though.

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

28.05.2007 20:30:21

The Application Switcher can be activated with a mouse button press if you have the Mighty Mouse software installed. The switcher stays open until a mouse click on the desired application. I do not know what is going on in the background, there may be some messy hack to get it to do that, but I assume, since it is from Apple, that something more elegant is going on. 

User

29.05.2007 16:41:01

I didn't know that before.

Nonetheless, accessing undocumented APIs should always be avoided if 
possible. I'll keep your request in mind, though and have added it to 
the Todo list.

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

22.06.2007 01:32:06

I'm really itching for a better way to switch apps, too, but I've found that I use the "Applications" menu much more than the "Application manager." From within any behavior, I can move up one level to the "Applications" menu, from which I can select any open or non open app.

My main frustration is that I only ever do one thing from here, which is "Activate Behavior." Could we have the option to activate the behavior by default, so that we essentially just bypass that intermediate menu step, immediately activating the behavior and the

Or perhaps, at the very least, automatically go to the app menu for all apps that are already open, but require activation for those that aren't?

Ideally switching to any open (or not) app would be as simple as: [menu, left, (up,down)*, play], at which point the RB menu would fade away, leaving the newly selected behavior's controls active. 

User

23.06.2007 14:07:01

Hello Eben,

thanks for the feedback.

I have a lot of ideas to improve the menu - and hope to finally serve 
everybody's taste (now that's an undertaking! ;-) with the next 
release or the release thereafter (I say that, because right now, I 
work on a top secret new feature of Remote Buddy, that'll be really, 
really BIG).

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

25.02.2008 11:25:26

I'm really looking forward to this too. A simple application switcher would be great as a top level menu.