RB is very close to ideal and I'm very happy that I can now easily toggle subtitles and launch any of my DVD rips very easily.

One thing I would like to ask: Is it possible to make Remote Buddy more media centric? I'd like a slick interface much more like Front Row if possible. I am more interested in browsing my movies and media directly from remote buddy and launching them... don't really want to have to go to Remote Buddy, Launch DVD Player, go to Remote Buddy again, choose Movie. I'd rather go to Remote Buddy and launch Movie directly just like in Front Row.

Another issue: I have increased the font size on my Mac Mini because I use it as an HTPC and the fonts are way too small for me to read on my HDTV. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work too well with Remote Buddy. Any chance this will be fixed in a future release?

Here is a screenshot: http://bayimg.com/AaDfnAabF

Thanks a lot for your quality work on a quality application!

Last edited: 05.07.2007 06:04:26

Last edited: 07.07.2007 08:24:59 

You can launch a movie directly using either the recent files submenu 
- or, if you organize your movies as VIDEO_TS folders - via the Movie 
Library that's (in V1.1) available via

DVD Player > Movie Library 
VLC > Movie Library

Neither of both apps need be started prior to that.

Thanks for the screenshot as well. I'll try to fix the problem as 
soon as I know how to reproduce it. Where did you change the font size?

Best regards, 
Felix 

I see what you mean about being able to launch movies without having to activate the behaviour first. Is there way to put the Movies folder at the top level menu?

For the fonts issue... I changed my fonts using the TinkerTool freeware. RB isn't the only application that has trouble with the fonts, but it would be nice for RB to either accommodate bigger fonts or to force smaller fonts so that the text isn't truncated.

TinkerTool is here: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html

Thanks!! 

Just go to Preferences > Menu and either pick the pre-created, 
editable copy of the default profile or create a new one. You can 
drag and drop the Movies folder at the top level there then, if you 
so want.

I've added the TinkerTool issue to the ToDo list and will investigate 
it later. Basically, as a developer, you provide a subclass of NSCell 
to the NSTableView - and just keep using the font that is already set 
up - which works fine and should be compatible with future versions 
of OS X. So I'm a bit afraid to break compatibility with Leopard in 
favor of an unsupported feature TinkerTool makes use of. But I'll 
have to see about that.

Best regards, 
Felix 

I just received my Keyspan Express Remote, and have started using the demo of Remote Buddy. 
I would like to second RB's request to make Remote Buddy a little bit more "media centric"... or more customising options beyond the profile root menu

Remote Buddy is a very deep program it seems and a bit overwhelming, when all I want to do is simple, dummy-proof stuff.

It took me a while to understand the phrase "activate behaviour" (it's not something you would find in a off the shelf dvd-player menu or television set) 
I would love to create a very simple menu with stuff like "play music" or "play dvd", that would automatically take me to the corresponding items. When choosing "play music" I might want to search through my artist library, without first having to activate a behaviour. 
Frontrow is a very nice example of this kind of simplicity. 
Ultimatly it would be nice if it felt more like a media system, where as now it still feels like a computer being controlled.

Another nice detail would be the possibility to have a full screen backdrop which hides the desktop and menu bar..this would certainly help a lot I think

Also, is there a possibility to turn off the button mapping display beside the "activate behaviour", I find it confusing and cluttering...

Last edited: 18.07.2007 15:48:07 

Thanks for the feedback.

As for the media centressness: Remote Buddy's evolution will 
certainly not stand still ;-)

Regarding the simplified Behaviour menus: thanks for the thoughtful 
comment. You can remove items you don't want or add items you do want 
using drag and drop in the list(s) at

Preferences > Behaviours > _Behaviour_Of_Your_Choice > Context menu

The button mapping display can't be removed or disabled at this 
point. But as said: evolution never stops ;-)

Best regards, 
Felix