Sequence of events

[Steven185]

Hello, I'm relatively new to EventGhost and I would like to know if there is a way to make it trigger an action when a very specific -certain- sequences of events happen one after another. I tried a couple of things but at best all the did were to trigger the action multiple times (I want the opposite, to trigger *one* action from multiple events). Any suggestion would be great...

Also on an irrelevant do any of you guys know whether there is any plugin for wiimote "floating" around? Despite my best tries I haven't found one yet.


PS: Excuse my bad English I'm not a native speaker

[jonib]

I would like to know if there is a way to make it trigger an action when a very specific -certain- sequences of events happen one after another.

Below is a screenshot for an example I made, that should show one way of doing it.
It needs me to press tree buttons on my remote in the right sequence to do the ShowOSD action. It will ignore any other events that are in the wrong order.

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The below is from the log when I pressed Move and Swap and nothing happens, until I press PIP and the rest in order.

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Remote.Move
Remote.Swap
Remote.PIP
   First event
      Enable: Second event
      Disable: First event
Remote.Swap
   Second event
      Enable: Third event
      Disable: Second event
Remote.Move
   Third event
      Show OSD: Sequence finished
      Enable: First event
      Disable: Third event

You can paste the below code in EventGhost to test my example (Of course you need to change the events to something else for it to work):

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1568">
    <Folder Name="Event sequence">
        <Macro Name="First event" id="1826" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="Remote.PIP" />
            <Action>
                EventGhost.EnableItem(XmlIdLink(1824))
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(1826))
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Second event" id="1824" Enabled="False" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="Remote.Swap" />
            <Action>
                EventGhost.EnableItem(XmlIdLink(1822))
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(1824))
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Third event" id="1822" Enabled="False" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="Remote.Move" />
            <Action>
                EventGhost.ShowOSD(u'Sequence finished', u'0;-24;0;0;0;700;0;0;0;1;0;0;2;32;Arial', (255, 255, 255), (0, 0, 0), 0, (0, 0), 0, 3.0, False)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.EnableItem(XmlIdLink(1826))
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(1822))
            </Action>
        </Macro>
    </Folder>
</EventGhost>

Hopefully this helps you get the result you are after.

jonib

[AnotherPhil]

Here's another example, but with a timer added to reset folders to their starting state one second after the first key in the sequence. This example launches CCleaner after receiving 123 within the one second window.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1544" Guid="{71452CD6-E6D6-4586-87A9-F6DD8F1DAF68}" Time="1344007446.97">
    <Autostart Name="Autostart" Expanded="True">
        <Plugin Identifier="Keyboard" Guid="{59CBD10F-C1D8-4ADB-999B-9B76BA360F1F}" File="Keyboard">
            gAIpLg==
        </Plugin>
        <Plugin Identifier="Timer" Guid="{6149CA99-1FCD-4450-9160-7543BC20CFD3}" File="Timer">
            gAIpLg==
        </Plugin>
    </Autostart>
    <Folder Name="Compound Commands" Expanded="True">
        <Macro Name="<unnamed macro>" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="Timer.ResetCompoundCommand" />
            <Action>
                EventGhost.EnableItem(XmlIdLink(751))
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(752))
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(759))
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Folder Name="t" id="751" Expanded="True">
            <Macro Name="Enable exclusive: t2" Expanded="True">
                <Event Name="Keyboard.1" />
                <Action>
                    Timer.TimerAction(u'CompoundCommandTimeOut', 0, 1, 1.0, u'ResetCompoundCommand', False, True, 1, u'00:00:00')
                </Action>
                <Action>
                    EventGhost.EnableItem(XmlIdLink(752))
                </Action>
                <Action>
                    EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(751))
                </Action>
            </Macro>
        </Folder>
        <Folder Name="t2" id="752" Enabled="False" Expanded="True">
            <Macro Name="<unnamed macro>" Expanded="True">
                <Event Name="Keyboard.2" />
                <Action>
                    EventGhost.EnableItem(XmlIdLink(759))
                </Action>
                <Action>
                    EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(752))
                </Action>
            </Macro>
        </Folder>
        <Folder Name="t3" id="759" Enabled="False" Expanded="True">
            <Macro Name="Start Program: CCleaner.exe" Expanded="True">
                <Event Name="Keyboard.3" />
                <Action>
                    System.Execute(u'E:\\Program Files\\CCleaner\\CCleaner.exe', u'', 0, False, 2, u'', False)
                </Action>
            </Macro>
        </Folder>
    </Folder>
</EventGhost>