Make it stay focused?? Use EG to open on another screen

[pettergulbra]

Hi

I think I have made this work.
I have got it to change the resolution, but can`t get it to move to the other screen.

I tried to follw this:
I have this working without ultramon. My setup is windows 7 RC with my primary monitor a dell 24' and my 2nd is my Sharp LCD TV. No ultamon, just EventGhost.

Using EventGhost & an MCE Remote I created a macro that does the following..
Event: MCE.RemoteStart (Green Button)
Event: Keyboard.F12 (F12 Hotkey to trigger the same action in case the remote isn't handy)
Action: SetDisplayPreset (Fixes an issue I have with hdmi losing it's knowledge of my TV sometimes causing a black screen)
Action: Start xbmc.exe using -fs switch
Action: Find window XBMC
Action: Move window x:1280 y:0
Action: Emulate Keystrokes "\"
Action: Emulate Keystrokes "\"
Action: Find window XBMC (sometimes I would lose focus on the app after the keystrokes. This sets it back)

Voila -> works everytime XBMC launches flawlessly on my TV full screen with the click of a button.

The only problem. I can`t get it to move to the other screen. Like they says in this tried.

Hope someone can help me.

Kindly

Petter

[pettergulbra]

My first setup(down under), just used the options in the EG user display, and choosed the things from there. But nothing workd liked planed.
But I got the last setup from a member on another forum, like the one in the bottom. But now the problem is that the window do not get in the spotlight. So I can`t use my remote control. It is not focused.

Is there a way to fix this?


<Macro Name="Start Program: XBMC.exe" Expanded="True">
<Event Name="MceRemote.Start" />
<Action>
System.SetDisplayPreset((u'\\\\.\\DISPLAY1', 1280, 0, 1280L, 768L, 60L, 32L, True, False, 0L), (u'\\\\.\\DISPLAY2', 0, 0, 1360L, 768L, 60L, 32L, True, True, 0L))
</Action>
<Action>
System.Execute(u'C:\\Programfiler\\XBMC\\XBMC.exe' , u'-fs', 0, False, 2, u'C:\\Programfiler\\XBMC')
</Action>
<Action>
Window.FindWindow(u'XBMC.exe', None, None, None, None, None, False, 5.0, 0)
</Action>
<Action>
Window.MoveTo(1280, 0)
</Action>
<Action>
Window.SendKeys(u'\\', False)
</Action>
<Action>
Window.SendKeys(u'\\', False)
</Action>
<Action>
Window.FindWindow(u'XBMC.exe', u'XBMC Media Center', u'SDL_app', None, None, None, False, 5.0, 0)
</Action>

Old setup:

<Macro Name="Start Program: XBMC.exe" Expanded="True">
<Event Name="MceRemote.Start" />
<Action>
System.SetDisplayPreset((u'\\\\.\\DISPLAY1', 0, 0, 1280L, 768L, 60L, 32L, True, True, 0L), (u'\\\\.\\DISPLAY2', 1280, 0, 1360L, 768L, 60L, 32L, True, False, 0L))
</Action>
<Action>
System.Execute(u'C:\\Programfiler\\XBMC\\XBMC.exe' , u'-fs', 0, False, 2, u'')
</Action>
<Action>
Window.FindWindow(None, u'XBMC', None, None, None, None, False, 0.0, 0)
</Action>
<Action>
Window.MoveTo(1366, 768)
</Action>
<Action>
Window.SendKeys(u'\\', False)
</Action>
<Action>
Window.SendKeys(u'\\', False)
</Action>
<Action>
Window.FindWindow(None, u'XBMC', None, None, None, None, False, 0.0, 0)
</Action>

[stottle]

There's the "Window->Bring to Front" action. Have you tried that?

Brett

[pettergulbra]

Looks like I got it to work now. A little bit more testing, and I will post if it works.

Thanks