EventGhost

All,

Given the progress on the new Mce Remote plugin (ok, before that too, but I want to give myself some credit), there have been some requests to control MCE from EG after the HID registry keys were removed. I don't use MCE, but given the right keyboard actions, I can pull together a plugin. So ...

Bartman wrote:You can use as many timers as you like.

Guess I misspoke... you are only allowed to use one instance of the each timer... as it says in the GUI..."Currently running timer with the same name will be aborted"...

No worries, though... I found a solution to my problem.

Thanks.

Ok then... apparently, you can only use one timer at a time... Oh well, I guess I can just save the file info to a list in eg.globals and set a timer to run through the whole list in the middle of the night.

Ok, I figured out a work-around. I can embed the variables in event name.

in my case, it will be something like

Timer.inputFile;outputDest.convert

Then I just trigger the conversion with any "convert" event... then in the event-handler, parse the event.suffix to get at what I need. Quick and ...

I assume there will only be one file to convert at any given time. Could you store the file location into a fixed named/location file? The conversion program can then be triggered without any parameter, since it will always look in that file to find the information about the file to be converted ...

Is there a way to pass variables to the payload of the triggered event?

I'm trying to run a "convert-to-mpg" program when Vista Media Center records a show, but I have to wait until the show is done recording before converting it. So, I'm using directory watcher to see when a 'dvr-ms' file is ...

This should probably be in the plugins forum, but I don't seem to have permission to post there...

Anyway. Can event arguments be used in event ghost? For example, with the webserver plugin, I can send:

http://localhost/index.html?MediaPlayer&Playing_Title&Transport_Status

and generate the ...

Two ideas:

2. What do you use as line-ending character(s)? The protocol uses "\n" (linefeed) only, if I remember correctly. An "\r\n" might produce the problem.

This was it! Well, in a way anyway... I was using WriteLine() to send the message. That method does the end-of-line for you (probably ...

I'm using v0.3.4 build 851 with Vista. Works great for me.

So, after trying to get the NetRemote demo to work with EventGhost, I decided it would be easier / preferable to write my own network remote app that speaks to the EventGhost Network Receiver plugin. If I get it to a point where I'm happy with it, I'll open source it as a free alternative to ...