Send key to application withouth focus => MCE problem :(

[Loli]

Is it possible to make eventghost send event to and application without focusing it?

It will be really usable because i can write something in eclipse on primary screen and control MCE on secondary seamlessly!

Thanks for your answer!

EDIT: i tried it now and IT WORK! But my problem is that vista MCE don't accept it - can you help me somehow? I'm trying to do it for about 4 hours without success, but this software is still best anyway!

EDIT2: i found this: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb188947.aspx ... but it is not full list and don't work for me

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb643809.aspx ... looks like maybe i can do it, but i it will need external aplication in .net that will send commands to MCE acording to what it receives in commandline(or something), it sure isn't clear way how to do it.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa286546.aspx + http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en ... or would it be better to write some plugin into mce directly?

[CollinR]

What specifically are you tring to do?

[topix]

Maybe you can do a FindWindow an then send a message. Something like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1256">
    <Macro Name="MCE: Goto My Music" Expanded="True">
        <Action Name="Finde Fenster:  MCE">
            Window.FindWindow(None, None, u'Media Center Tray Applet', None, None, 1, False, 0.0, 0)
        </Action>
        <Action>
            Window.SendMessage(793, 5, 0, 0)
        </Action>
    </Macro>
</EventGhost>

Helps this -> http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php ... e_Commands

[Loli]

What specifically are you tring to do?

I have PC that is used as MCE on secondary display and as normal pc at same time. I want to use MS MCE. I'm trying to have my remote dedicated to control MCE withouth having mce infront (have focus on it) so i can use it like normal pc and MCE part will be at same time controled with remote withouth any break to work on normal PC.

Hope that it is understandable.

[CollinR]

You will need either an MCE plugin or a list of the MCE send messages.

The list you had found is only for direct page access, much more important is the Up/Down/Left/Right/OK as that plus home will allow you control.


SageTV will do this now without any trouble don't know how hooked on MCE you are. I use Sage on an MCE 05 box, it's actually the better deal as you can RDP into it and it's cheaper then Pro.

[Loli]

Well i like MCE music library most of all that i tried (only meedio had nice, but it is stoped now) and i really like its integration to WMP etc.

And i don't want spend more money on MCE software - i use if for music mostly and ocassionaly for some movie. I know it is really specific usage, but MCE (it is called WMC in vista) is best for me if i solve this remote controller issue .

I also experimented with media portal but it does not handle my music library on samba share - more like it made it accessible once and it is not accessible in it since first reboot of my pc from then. So it is useless for me. And i even don't liked it's music library views (but it can be changed probably).