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Postby shadowman » May 29th, 2008, 12:21 am

Hi,

great player :D

Support for Multimedia keys would be great.
And the global Hotkeys won't work when I played some games :?:

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Postby Cliff Cawley » May 29th, 2008, 7:35 am

shadowman Wrote:Hi,

great player :D

Support for Multimedia keys would be great.
And the global Hotkeys won't work when I played some games :?:

best regards


Hi shadowman,

There should already be support for the Multimedia keys. What sort of keyboard are you using and have you installed the driver for them?

The global hotkeys may be conflicting with keys you use in game, what keys are you using for the Hotkeys?

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Postby WinstonGFX » May 29th, 2008, 2:27 pm

Yeah I have media buttons on my Dell Inspiron 1720 and they work fine. I know for a fact that the media buttons on my computer map to a letter key so it may conflict with a game potentially.
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Postby logokas » May 29th, 2008, 10:17 pm

It shouldn't conflict, because it's not actually mapped to the letter, it is just displayed like that, god knows why.

If you properly mapped the keys in Xion, you shouldn't have any problem, although i haven't heard of anyone else trying this on a laptop yet. You might just be the first.
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Postby shadowman » May 29th, 2008, 10:48 pm

My media buttons also map to a letter key etc. Play -> G

I've tried QCD Player.
With this one all works great, also turing gameplay.
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Postby logokas » May 30th, 2008, 4:06 am

No, you're mistaken. I just explained that in my previous post.

When mapping keys in Xion, assigning media keys to it result in displaying odd values like G or J as the key. This is false, and the button is not really mapped to G, or any other key. Try it yourself if you don't wish to believe me.

However, i did notice that some games do disable the media keys, GunZ for example. They just stop functioning for some reason. Possibly a bug.
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Postby shadowman » May 30th, 2008, 5:58 pm

No, you're mistaken. I just explained that in my previous post.


No man, I know what you mean.

It would be great if the Media Buttons work in the same
way like QCD Player. They solve the problem with the remapping.

That's my feature Request :D :D [/quote]
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Postby shadowman » September 23rd, 2008, 7:34 am

Are there already a couple of improvements with the global hotkeys?
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Postby Cliff Cawley » September 23rd, 2008, 1:35 pm

shadowman Wrote:Are there already a couple of improvements with the global hotkeys?


There have been minor fixes, but I haven't done anything major with them yet :)

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Postby shadowman » September 23rd, 2008, 8:41 pm

I love the Xion player. And if this feature works imho it's the best player :D
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Postby logokas » September 24th, 2008, 8:03 am

I don't really get how this feature DOESN'T work. I mapped my G15 Media keys to control Xion and they work perfectly, with the exception of when certain applications block output to something outside of the active application, like say, the Phantasy Star Online game client. If you run it, and have it as an active window, all the input stays in the application, and doesn't leave it's borders, which, in short, means that while PSO is the active window, media keys do not function, because their input never reaches Xion in the first place.

There are more applications that block keys in the same manner, and it's a shame really, but there's nothing Cliff can do about it without reworking the entire hotkey system to run at a lower level input, which would be able to bypass all these applications.

Other than that, during normal use, if your media keys do not function, blame your keyboard or yourself for not mapping the keys correctly.
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Postby shadowman » September 24th, 2008, 10:51 pm

...work perfectly, with the exception of when certain applications block...


That's the point. It would be excellent if the hotkeys always work.
Even if Xion does not have any focus. In the same
way like QCD Player.
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Postby shadowman » September 30th, 2008, 8:45 pm

Also I've got one button for Play and Pause but I can assign only one function.
Play or Pause. A Play/Pause button would be great.

Perhaps it would be possible simply to use the HDI service for multimedia keyboards?
One then should not assign the Mulimedia buttons any more than global hot keys, or what?
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Postby Cliff Cawley » September 30th, 2008, 11:48 pm

shadowman Wrote:Also I've got one button for Play and Pause but I can assign only one function.
Play or Pause. A Play/Pause button would be great.

Perhaps it would be possible simply to use the HDI service for multimedia keyboards?
One then should not assign the Mulimedia buttons any more than global hot keys, or what?


I'm pretty sure all the QCD does it register global keyboard hooks. I used to do this but I think it caused problems with some keyboards. I'll look into this again soon and see what's going on. I only have one or two keyboards to test on though, so if it doesn't work on XYZ keyboard I'll either need a test one or else I might not be able to support it.

As for a Play/Pause button, that's exactly what the Pause button does. Press once for Pause, again for Unpause. Play either unpauses, or restarts the track. Just bind it to Pause and you'll be set.

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Postby shadowman » October 1st, 2008, 2:16 am

As for a Play/Pause button, that's exactly what the Pause button does


The only thing I didn't try so far. Shame on me :oops:

I'll look into this again soon and see what's going on.


That would be great :D
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