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15.02.2009 18:20:57

Zooming Issues

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Hi,

I am using a demo of Remote Buddy, and want to use Remote Buddy with a Wiimote. I am mainly interested in using the zooming functionality of OS X and the Wiimote IR functionality of your program. I notice that when I zoom in with the Wiimote, the screen jitters uncontrollably, and this feature is unusable. I am very impressed with all of the other aspects of this software, but the being able to zoom, and use the Wiimote's IR navigation is one of the main reasons I was looking for in purchasing this software. Is there anyway to get rid of this jittering?

Thanks,

Ryan

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

18.02.2009 15:09:07

Re: Zooming Issues

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Thanks for asking.

The Wii Remote driver directly sets the mouse position from the data
it gets from the Wii Remote. The resolution of the Wii Remote is
approximately 1024 x 768. So the cursor is bound to jump if you have a
higher resolution. Remote Buddy does not generate interpolate mouse
position events with intermediate steps as that'd raise complex timing
issues and put a lot of load on the OS X event system.

While this is usually not a problem and gives high efficiency, the
immediate mouse pointer position changes of course will be more
noticable when you use OS X screen magnification as now the entire
screen is moving.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

User

04.07.2009 16:56:39

Re: Zooming Issues

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Does it mean zooming will be only available that way? I know nothing of programing and fixing bugs and stuff, so i'm just asking, but why when using the wiimote on a wii, with a big tv screen, there's no jittering at all? i mean why is it smooth if the wiimote only has a resolution of aprox. 1024x768?

User

04.07.2009 17:17:06

Re: Re: Zooming Issues

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Thanks for asking.

I don't know about the Wii Game Console's output resolution, but the
effective, regular TV resolution is usually close to 640 x 480 - or
about 720 x 576 including overscan - and thus smaller than the
resolution of the Wii Remote's sensor, while computer screens today
normally have a resolution of 1280 x 1024 and higher (and thus higher
than the resolution of the Wii Remote).

If you equally distribute 1024 physical points over 640 display
points, you have more physical points than your display has. If
however, you try to distribute the same 1024 physical points over 1280
and more display points, you have no other choice than to use one
physical point for more than one display point.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

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