I am using 2 displays: 1 cinema display as the primary display and a plasma as a secondary display.

My aim is to be able to use Plex as a background task to run for the home theatre, whilst being able to do tasks on my desktop.

Everything is working quite nicely except for 1 thing: When Plex doesn't have focus, for example if I am viewing a web page on the primary display, all of the events from the Sony BD remote are sent to the application with the focus.

I was looking at the custom actions and I think it looks possible to be able to send an event directly to an application (by class or some other way).

Any help with an example how to send an event/keystroke directly to Plex would be greatly appreciated! 

I have the same set up as you do. Dual screens, a PS3 remote, and I work on one screen, watch on the other.

You would have to make each action yourself and then

• uncheck "Activate application and bring it to front" 
• check "send event directly to this application"

What I did is create a new behavior and input all the actions there. If you want I can share that with you, it'll probably save you quite some time ;)

Last edited: 10.10.2008 07:14:48 

Could you send it to:

greybruxelles-rego (at) yahoo (dot) com

Thanks!

Last edited: 10.10.2008 09:56:05 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/qmenmkynjmy/Plex.rbscriptedbehaviour.zip

Let me know how that goes :)

BTW, make sure you uncheck the default Plex behavior in order to use the custom one. Here are Felix's instructions:

"Please note that, when you add your own Behaviour for an app that's 
already supported by a Behaviour that ships with Remote Buddy itself, 
which of the Behaviours will be picked to control the app is undefined.

You'll definately want to make sure that:

- you uncheck the checkbox in front of Remote Buddy's *own* Behaviour 
in Remote Buddy > Prefs > Behaviour (so it's no longer used by Remote 
Buddy).

- you do have only one copy of your Behaviour lying around in ~/ 
Library/Application Support/Remote Buddy/Behaviours"

I also had to disable the default behaviour (Remote buddy was switching to it) and also remove alot of global mappings. Since the remote will only be used for Plex, it's no problem.

Thanks again for your help. 

Under the mappings preferences, for the remote, there was mappings for the arrow keys. I had to unmap those values as it was overriding the behaviour. 

It still doesn't work. It either does nothing at all when Plex is out of Focus or it will keep sending a particular key (ex. down or up arrows) constantly making the menus scroll repeatedly until I place Plex back in focus.

Any ideas what I may be doing wrong here? 

Once activated, to keep it active go to Preferences -> General -> Advanced and check the following:

"Manually activated Behaviors stay active until they are explicitly deactivated"

Let me know if that works ;)

Last edited: 30.10.2008 19:41:28 

That was the trick! For some reason it wasn't the default behavior on 
startup even though I had it checked as such... oh well. Fixed now 
though.

Thanks!

On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Miguel wrote: