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20.08.2007 01:00:59

Menu button (hold) behaves differently

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Hi!
Just updated to 1.1., and maybe it's just me, but now when I hold the menu button (Apple Remote) while in EyeTV, both EyeTV's Full Screen Menu AND Remote Buddy's menu show up. I have to press menu again to make RB's menu disappear.

I know this is directly linked to the way I have configured my RB, but why did it worked before upgrading?

I'm re-reading my post and I think I'm not that clear. So let's go "bullet-form":

- While in EyeTV, I want the menu button to make RB's menu appear, and I the menu button HOLD to make EyeTV's Full Screen Menu to appear

- It worked in my RB RC1 version

- I upgraded and now both menu show up when I hold my menu button

- I use an Apple Remote

Thanks in advance! :-)

These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:

Hardware - Apple® Remote

After uninstalling/quitting Remote Buddy, my Mac® no longer reacts to the Apple® Remote. (FAQ015E0241)
To enable you to use all capabilities of the IR Receiver of your Mac®, Remote Buddy is using its own driver. In contrast, all other applications with integrated Apple® Remote support usually use the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

As long as you're running Remote Buddy, Remote Buddy and its driver are responsible for turning the received button presses into actions. As soon as you quit Remote Buddy, this task is again handled by the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

If other applications don't use the interface to the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem correctly, this can lead to the effect that nothing happens when you press a button on your Apple® Remote. For as long as you're running Remote Buddy, issues like this are covered by Remote Buddy and it's driver and are therefore not visible to you. However, as soon as you quit Remote Buddy, the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem is back in control and any issues caused in it by other applications become visible.

Therefore Remote Buddy is neither the cause of the issue nor is it responsible for it. Instead, the cause of the issue exists independently of Remote Buddy. It's located elsewhere and can also only be solved there.

Although our products can't cause any such issues, we're regularly contacted about such issues and asked for help. In order to make locating and fixing the cause of such issues as easy and efficient as possible, we've developed a free diagnostics tool: Remote Control Diagnostics. It can locate issues with a single click and will provide you with information about the issue as well as with instructions on how you can fix it.
After updating to OS X 10.6.2, my Apple® Remote is no longer available for selection in Remote Buddy. (FAQ015E0236)
Please update your copy of Remote Buddy to version 1.15 or later.

Hardware - EyeTV Receiver

Which receivers are supported? (FAQ015E0211)
The latest info on hard- and software-requirements including info on support hardware can be found on the dedicated page for EyeTV receivers.

Please consider making use of the free Remote Buddy trial version to test your device for compatibility directly on your computer.

User

20.08.2007 01:41:02

Re: Menu button (hold) behaves differently

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Hi!

This could be another odd side effect of a bug that Apple introduced
(and didn't fix since) in OS 10.4.9 / Security Updates 2007-004 / OS
10.4.10.

Remote Buddy, however, provides an elegant fix. Please make sure to
install the Remote Buddy kernel extension via Remote Buddy's setup
wizard to fix the problem. For more details on the what and why,
please have a look at the FAQ entry titled

"When pressing the menu button, both the Remote Buddy menu and Front
Row are being displayed. Also, two actions are activated for other
buttons as well. I have this problem since installing OS 10.4.9 /
Security Updates 2007-004 / OS 10.4.10."

If you already have the kernel extension installed, please send me a
screenshot of your Behaviour mapping's view to IOSPIRIT's info address
(as seen in the imprint) and provide me with more details on what you
need to do to reproduce the problem and in which state EyeTV's user
interface was at the time (i.e. full screen, windowed, running video,
no video window, ..).

The other two options for which I'll need that info would either be an
as of yet unknown bug in Remote Buddy's EyeTV fullscreen handling
routine - or in EyeTV itself, if your EyeTV hardware sports a built-in
IR receiver.

Best regards,
Felix

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