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10.01.2008 09:57:49

Opens VLC from Safari, but still controls safari

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I'm working on a web based mediacenter and I'm opening vlc from safari with the use of remote buddy. But when VLC starts and becomes active, remote buddy still controls safari. How can I make remote buddy understand that vlc is the active application to control?

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.

User

10.01.2008 11:32:42

Re: Opens VLC from Safari, but still controls safari

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Hi Eric,
remote buddy does not always control the frontmost application but the application which behaviour is activated.
so when you control safari and swith to vlc as frontmost app, you still control safari as long the safari behavious is activated in remotebuddy.
a possible solution may be to use something like dsw (free at http://www.azarhi.com/Projects/DSW/) and set up as vlc start it calls an applescript to set the vls-behaviour active in remot buddy.
as you quits vlc dsw could calls a skript to go back to safari behaviour.
just an idea. hope it helps.

User

10.01.2008 13:08:59

Re: Opens VLC from Safari, but still controls safari

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Well if it work to activate a certain behavior from applescript I can run the applescript from the shell.
How do I tell remote buddy to activate a certain behaviour with applescript?

User

10.01.2008 17:10:02

Re: Re: Opens VLC from Safari, but still controls safari

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Thanks Heiko for the explaination!

You can change the active behaviour to the VLC behaviour via
AppleScript like this:

tell application "Remote Buddy"
behaviourcore accessor "setActiveBehaviour" identifier
"org.videolan.vlc" useActivationEventCode "activated"
end tell

or to make the selection "sticky"

tell application "Remote Buddy"
behaviourcore accessor "setActiveBehaviour" identifier
"org.videolan.vlc" useActivationEventCode "activated" with stickyValue
end tell

You can get detailed info on Remote Buddy's AppleScript interface by
opening Script Editor's Library, then dragging Remote Buddy onto it.
Each function is described in depth and commented sample code provided
for each command.

Best regards,
Felix

User

10.01.2008 17:24:33

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Thanks guys! You just made my day =)

This application is awesome.

/Erik

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