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09.11.2007 13:39:05

Help creating a Dashboard solution

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I'm looking for a good way to implement Dashboard into my RB menu. I've been messing around with several possibilities, but none seem to work to my satisfaction. Suggestions would be wonderful.

I know RB has built-in support for Expose features, which include Dashboard, but I'm using RB as an interface for a DVR setup, so I'm trying to simplify its use as much as possible. Since the other Expose features will never need to be used, what I'd like is for there to simply be a Dashboard item in the main menu.

Ideally, here's how it would work: There's an item in the main menu, similar to how you can place the Eject or Restart items in the main menu. When you select it, it closes the RB menu and brings up the Dashboard. From the Dashboard, pressing practically any button will simply close the Dashboard and return you to whatever you were doing before opening it.

I've already tried setting up custom actions and behaviors, but I can't seem to get them working properly. Anyway, any help or direction would be greatly appreciated!

Last edited: 09.11.2007 13:39:52

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

Configuration

How do I add a new action to a Behaviour - f.ex. an emulated key press or AppleScript? (FAQ015E0153)
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.

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.

User

12.11.2007 05:04:47

Re: Help creating a Dashboard solution

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I wanted this for my Mac mini media system, too, so I added the Dashboard action (selected my own menu profile, the in the Item Library, under Actions -> Exposé) to the main menu in Menu Layout. It's not quite as nice as you might want (I'm pretty sure it brings up Dashboard but leaves the Remote Buddy menu up; you can choose Dashboard from the Remote Buddy menu again to deactivate it), but it's fairly quick remote control access to Dashboard.

User

12.11.2007 10:31:44

Re: Help creating a Dashboard solution

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Thanks for the suggestion. I had actually already hit upon this method, and was hoping for something a little more seamless, but it's certainly the best I've found. I'll be going with this if I don't find any better methods.

Unfortunately, as you point out, using the Dashboard action in the main menu does leave the RB menu open when you use it. It's actually possible, I think, to build your own action that essentially does the same thing - toggle Dashboard - as well as close the RB menu. (I'm guessing that all the built-in Dashboard command does is really just to simulate pressing F12.) The only problem remaining is that this method won't change the active behavior, so you have to go back into the RB menu to close the Dashboard.

If it were just about me, I wouldn't even worry about it or look any further. But I pretty much want the thing to be so easy my mother could use it, so it would be great to have something even more intuitive.

User

19.11.2007 23:03:01

Re: Help creating a Dashboard solution

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Try this:

Step 1: In Preferences > Menu

Place the item located at

Actions > Behaviours > Activate Exposé Behaviour

from the "Item Library" to the place of your choice in your custom
menu profile.

Step 2: In Preferences > Mapping

- Map the play button to the Dashboard action

- Map all other buttons to the action "Behaviours > Deactivate current
Behaviour" (as found in the popup)

After that, you can enter Dashboard by selecting the item in the menu,
then pressing Play for as long as you want to see Dashboard. Any other
button presses will return you to the Behaviour Remote Buddy
automatically chooses for you.

Best regards,
Felix

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