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25.04.2009 00:27:30

Feature suggestions, mouse, auto activate behavior

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-RB competitor (I'm sure you now this, Felix...) has a solution for drag and right-click in their virtual mouse implementation. Would be a nice addition to RB too.

-Would it be possible to have a mode for RB that would work so that selecting the behaviors from the menu would also automatically activate them? There's probably a reason why that is not the case, but it would seem to me that at least as an option this would make sense? I don't fully understand why this manual activation step would be always required? Seems unnecessary for me in many/most of my use cases.

And how is that iPhone app coming along, Felix? ;-)

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Hardware - Apple® Remote

After uninstalling/quitting Remote Buddy, my Mac® no longer reacts to the Apple® Remote. (FAQ015E0241)
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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.

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User

28.04.2009 16:43:17

Re: Feature suggestions, mouse, auto activate behavior

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Thanks for asking.

1) Remote Buddy was the first to introduce a virtual mouse - including
right clicks and left mouse drags - way back in mid 2006.

Right now Remote Buddy's virtual mouse is optimized to assist in
presentations. Which usually need neither drag and drop nor right
clicks. Instead, the six buttons are mapped by default to enable and
disable the Mousespot feature and make jumping back to presentation
control as easy as possible. Exactly what you'd want when using
PowerPoint, Keynote, Acrobat, Preview ..

You can easily change this by selecting the respective actions for the
Play/Pause and Menu buttons with two simple clicks at Prefs > Mapping

Virtual Mouse.

2) This, too, is one click in a checkbox away. You find the respective
option at RB > Prefs > Menu > Appearance & Size.

3) iPhone: please read the blog entry and my follow-up comment on that
blog entry.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

User

02.05.2009 01:38:06

Re: Re: Feature suggestions, mouse,

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Thanks Felix.

1) Excellent, didn't realize that these actions were so easily
available.
Managed to map those, dragging works nicely, but right clicking
doesn't work the way I hoped.
It does open the context menus, but they disappear when I release the
button and so I can't really choose any of the menu choices.
I'm probably doing something wrong?

2) Yep, got this working. Hadn't found these options either.

br,
Timo

User

02.05.2009 23:04:16

Re: Re: Feature suggestions, mouse,

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Glad I could help :-)

OS X has to two different built-in ways to handle right mouse button
clicks in the context of a context menu:

1) short right click => the context menu stays open until you press
the left mouse button to select an entry

2) long right click => the context menu stays open for the length of
your mouse button press. It'll close when you release the mouse button.

So what you'll want to do is to only invoke the right click action
shortly (execute a short press on the remote), so the context menu
stays open for you to make your selection.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

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