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24.04.2009 23:58:29
EyeTV menu, Live TV Window
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I've now been using RB for a couple of weeks and been mostly happy, thank you.

One of the common activities for me is scheduling recordings with EyeTV, which brings me to couple of questions/suggestions:

-How could I create an action to close the EyeTV Live TV window? Or better yet has somebody created one? I know it is possible to close the window using virtual mouse, but it's quite a hassle that way. I don't want to close EyeTV app either, because I like to keep the EyeTV Program window open for viewing the EPG Program guide. 
Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

-How to create a new behavior that would go directly to EyeTV's own full screen menu? It's not that terrible to use the Toggle menu command in RB's default EyeTV menu, but still it feels like there are unnecessary steps. This also gets a poor WAF rating. 
Again my main aim is more often than not to go to EyeTV Guide menu to do some scheduling. 

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

Hardware - EyeTV Receiver
User

28.04.2009 16:35:17
Re: EyeTV menu, Live TV Window
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Thanks for asking.

1) The simpliest way would probably be to add a simple custom action 
that sends Apple + W to EyeTV. Which of course assumes that the Live 
TV window is the currently focused window of EyeTV. The more complex 
way is to write an AppleScript that goes through the list of EyeTV's 
windows and identifies and closes the Live TV window. That 
AppleScript, too, would have to be added as a custom action at/via RB

Prefs > Mapping > EyeTV > Select "Custom actions.." in the popup.

If you need step by step instructions, please consult the Online

 
Help's "How do I.." area.

2) Again, you can achieve this via a custom action, with f.ex. this 
AppleScript:

tell application "EyeTV" 
activate 
set full screen to true 
end tell

In the custom action editor, you'd want to check the checkbox for this 
action to make it global. You can then put it anywhere in the menu and 
also map it to any button of your remote in any mapping table.

Best regards, 
Felix Schwarz 

User

02.05.2009 01:58:16
Re: Re: EyeTV menu, Live TV Window
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Great!

1) Felix wrote: "The more complex way is to write an AppleScript that 
goes through the list of EyeTV's windows and identifies and closes the 
Live TV window."

Timo: It actually looks like there was already such an action. I tried 
predefined EyeTV action "Close video windows" and it seems to work 
exactly like I wanted. 
(And looks like there are too many actions in RB for even you, Felix, 
to remember :-))

2) This worked the way I wanted when I changed "set full screen to 
true" to "set full screen menu to true".

Thanks a lot for you help, Felix. 
Remote Buddy covers now quite nicely most of the things that I want to 
do with my Mac mini HTPC set-up. Excellent!

br, 
Timo