[HELP] MCE Remote through Keyboard Emulator to Emulator

[lahonda_99]

Compatibility Matrix
Dolphin 2.0
FCEUX
Fusion 3.64
MAME 0.138
Ootake 2.40
Oswan 1.7.3
SNES9x 1.52
VisualBoy Advance 1.8.0b3

OS: Windows XP 64bit Service Pack 2
EventGhost: 0.3.7.r1462
Remote Control: MCE Remote 1069

Using this setup I use EventGhost to emulate keyboard presses corresponding to shortcuts within some emulators. The green items in the compatibility matrix are programs that accept remote commands passed through EventGhost as emulated keyboard presses. Ootake accepts some and not others (emulating the F12 key works, but the 'S' or 'L' keys do. Red entries do not work with EventGhost.


Something as simple as sending the keyboard press of 'p' to MAME does nothing, while simply pressing 'p' on my physical keyboard is successful. I have tried the "Use alternate method to emulate keypresses" option with no difference. EventGhost log shows a successful execution of the macro.


There are no errors. Some keys work, others do not. Some emulators accept commands from EventGhost, others do not. Any ideas? Perhaps something to do with DirectInput?

[jonib]

Did you try the "Use alternative method to emulate keypresses" in the Emulate keystroke settings?

jonib

[lahonda_99]

Yes, I have tried it to no avail. The above post has been edited to reflect it.

[stottle]

You might want to take a look at this thread and see if handling simulated keys helps.

There's some code on the 2nd and 3rd pages that might get the events to show up.

Brett

[lahonda_99]

I read the thread and tried this fix, but it did not work.
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In the file [EG directory]\eg\Classes\EventGhostEvent.py, could you change the line (#142) from

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if self.prefix != "Keyboard":

to

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if not (self.prefix == "Keyboard" or self.prefix == "SimKey"):

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Certain programs still do not respond to keypresses passed through EventGhost. The events do show up within EventGhost. There is no problem with the remote I am using or the macros programmed within EG, it is just that EG is not passing certain presses to random programs.