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Hi!
Eg. in VLC's behaviour there're a number of actions in "Button mapping". However on the "Context Menu" tab of the behaviour in the "Item Library" list I see only a few actions (Toggle full screen, System volume slider and Movie Library). How can one add any of the other actions to the Context Menu (eg. Recycle all files) that are already available in button mappings?
These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:
The application has been installed after Remote Buddy has already been launched
For efficiency reasons, Remote Buddy only searches for supported applications when its started. If you have installed an application after launching Remote Buddy, please quit Remote Buddy and launch it anew.
Oudated program versions
The installed version of the program in question could be outdated and identify itself with a different Bundle Identifier than the version supported by Remote Buddy. This problem often occurs with Mplayer OS X. The most recent version of that application is not to be found on Sourceforge but on directly on the pages of Mplayer HQ.
Custom menus
If you use a custom menu in Remote Buddy and you don't make use of Remote Buddy's smart folders, the menu structure is static. You have to manually add the behaviour into a place of your choice in the menu.
The behaviour is deactivated.
Make sure, the checkbox in front of the Behaviour's name in the Mappings pane of the preferences is active.
The Launch Services database is outdated.
Remote Buddy uses Launch Services to check for the availability of an application on your Mac. If the Launch Services database of OS X is incomplete or outdated, so is Remote Buddy's dynamically created menu. The solution, though is easy. Download LSRefresh, launch it, select the application(s) that don't turn up in Remote Buddy's menu, wait until the update is finished and then restart Remote Buddy.
Yes. All you need to do is to install VLC and organize your files in a given folder structure. It's also possible to add covers then. If, for example, you want to add the file MyMovie.avi, the folder structure should look like this:
Title of my movie/VIDEO_TS/MyMovie.avi
Title of my movie/File with Cover.jpg
You can add movies that are split up into several files the same way. The folder structure then looks like this:
Title of my movie/VIDEO_TS/MyMovie part 1.avi
Title of my movie/VIDEO_TS/MyMovie part 2.avi
Title of my movie/VIDEO_TS/MyMovie part 3.avi
Title of my movie/File with Cover.jpg
The names of the movie- and coverfiles are freely choosable - you only need to make sure the suffix fits the format of the file. Supported formats for cover files include JPEG, PNG and GIF.
In Remote Buddy's menu, you can then start playback of your movies complete with existing covers in the context menu of the VLC Behaviour.
1) Open the Remote Buddy Preferences via the pulldown-menu and choose "Mapping".
2) Choose the mapping you want to modify.
3) Select "Custom actions" for the button you want to map to an action of your own.
4) Create the action you need using the appearing editor.
User
17.06.2007 22:46:02
Re: Missing actions in Item Library of behaviour's Context Menu
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Hi!
A Behaviour defines different lists of actions and thus their availability in different places. Custom Actions do currently not show up in the Context Menu tab, but this is actually an oversight and I'll change this with one of the next updates.
A work around would be to define the action you want to place in the menu as Action in the Action Factory of the Behaviour Construction Kit and ticking the "Global action" checkbox for it. It will then show up under "Actions > Miscellaneous" in the Context Menu Item Library.
Best regards, Felix
User
17.06.2007 22:55:41
Re: Missing actions in Item Library of behaviour's Context Menu
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Thanks for the quick reply!
You said that custom actions (which I understood as user-defined actions) do not show up as items to be put into context menus. However it's not only custom actions that do not show up. Eg. for VLC there're quite a lot builtin actions (I mean actions that came with the behaviour built into Remote Buddy) that do not show up in the Item Library for Context Menus, but are available as button mapping. So this limitation is not only for custom actions, but for most builtin actions too.
User
17.06.2007 23:34:01
Re: Re: Missing actions in Item Library of behaviour's Context Menu
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You're absolutely right, but this is by design as well. The VLC Behaviour just does not expose more than those actions available for picking right now globally, either. This, too, is an oversight of mine and will change.