Send generic media controls to any program

[bradvido]

I'd like to send standard Play, Pause, FastForward, Rewind, etc. controls to the computer via eventghost. These keys are all found standard on media keyboards, however I can not seem to figure out how to emulate pressing a "pause" key with eventghost.

I know you can control specific media programs with plug-ins, but i just need these generic controls to work for all programs.

Thanks for the help!

[Bartman]

You can do this with the sendmessage action

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 85%29.aspx

[bradvido]

Thank you. I've read your link, but i'm still not sure how I use it with EventGhost.
In the eventghost send message configuration, what do i use for wparam and lParam?

From you link, it looks like I would want lParam to be APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_PAUSE, however, eventghost want an integer. How do i translate?

[Bartman]

I only know some of the commands. Maybe you can find more with these ones. I'm sure buried in some files in the Windows SDK

Mute - 524288
Volumn down - 589824
Volumn up - 655360
Play / Pause - 917504
Stop - 851968
Previous track - 786432
Next track - 720896

[bradvido]

Check this link out http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/offto ... ost-35181/

Explains it pretty well.