Simple question: remote to keyboard action

[killervette]

How would i accept a IR signal and make a keyboard action from it? im lost...new to this program

[joshdorhyke]

It's not to bad once you first do it. But, I didn't really see anything that gave a quick tutorial of how to add something and I had to play for a while to figure it out.

On the right pane.
Click on the context folder and click the Add Folder - folder icon at the top to add a new folder. Call it keyboard emulation.
Then, Click on the Add Macro - wheel icon at the top to add a macro.
A window will pop-up
Go to the Windows folder on the left and pick Emulate Keystrokes from those commands.
Another window will pop-up allowing you to enter a key or pick the special ones from the drop-down (don't forget to click Insert if doing this)
At this point, you have created the macro to emulate the key stroke. under your folder you should have a macro and under the macro you should have the keyboard emulate command. However, there is still nothing to trigger the macro.

So, add a trigger.
Click the remote button and the code should appear in the left pane.
Grab it with the mouse and drag it over to the new macro you just added and drop it right above the emulate keyboard command or right at the top under the macro.

Now, when you press they remote button you should see the left pane show the remote code and then the keyboard event.

If your remote receiver isn't working click on the Add Plugin - cable icon at the top and find your remote receiver and add it. You'll notice there are plugins for a bunch of different devices and programs there.

Peter

[killervette]

awesome...thank for the great reply. i will try it out tonight. Couldnt find a whole lot of documentation, but it looks simple enough to catch on to after playing around with it. My next thing to figure out is how to make a webpage send events.