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19.05.2009 02:57:34

Remote Buddy and MacMame cant get Virtual Keyboard to work

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Hi, ive installed MacMame and want to control it using my Wii-remote. (all my other stuff works great using remote buddy, Thanks IOSpirit for an unreal product, i love it!)

anyways, macmame doesnt recognize the inputs made from the virual keyboard (either running in the background or full screen)

is there something iam missing? or have done wrong?

Even simply having macmame run in a window, and then bringing up the virtual keyboard and manually sellecting the buttons has nil effect.

any help would be much appreciated.

kind regards
Vanne

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

19.05.2009 16:41:17

Re: Remote Buddy and MacMame cant get Virtual Keyboard to work

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Thanks for asking.

I don't have any experience with MacMame, so I can only make an
educated guess:

Remote Buddy is using the OS X APIs designed for use by remote desktop
software. It's possible that OS X only adds these events as normal
keyboard events, at a higher level than where events coming from real
hardware originate (the HID level). If MacMame ignores normal keyboard
events and instead listens to keyboards directly at the HID level,
this may well explain what you are seeing.

If you have a second computer that you can use to remotely access your
Mac via Screen Sharing: can you control MacMame via the other computer?

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

User

20.05.2009 00:24:52

Re: Remote Buddy and MacMame cant get Virtual Keyboard to work

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If you have a second computer that you can use to remotely access your
Mac via Screen Sharing: can you control MacMame via the other computer?

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

Hi Felix

I'm also running MAME OS X so I tried that here. You can't use Screen Sharing to control MAME when a game is running. I'm pretty sure it accesses the keyboard at a "lower" level as you've suggested.

In any case, MAME needs to be able to detect simutaneous multiple key presses, so its never going to work with Remote Buddy.

My advice would be to buy a wireless joystick like I've got, works great!

User

20.05.2009 14:35:11

Re: Re: Remote Buddy and MacMame cant get Virtual Keyboard to work

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MacMAME is going down to the HID level then, which explains what you
see.

Multiple simultaneous actions being executed at the same time are not
currently supported for good reasons (I explained several times why in
the forum, but in essence: it will not work when f.ex. you'd be trying
to cut and paste at the same time, using Apple+C and Apple+V - the
system would only see Apple + C + V - it gets worse when other
modifiers come into play - therefore Remote Buddy takes care that such
combinations can't happen), but that doesn't mean it will never be
supported - Remote Buddy is under very active development after all ;-)

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

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