Re: Apple Remote and exclusivity
Le 4 juin 08 à 01:00, Scott Anguish a écrit : On Jun 3, 2008, at 5:02 AM, Hamish Allan wrote: I don't even know what the Cocoa interface to the Apple Remote is, let alone having used it, let alone being able to troubleshoot it, and I don't imagine everyone here is an expert either... You can find some tips about it here: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/iremoted/ ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apple Remote and exclusivity
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Elan Feingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the lack of responses I'm guessing I posted this to the wrong list :-) Four hours you gave everyone in all the different timezones of the world to respond before giving up! I don't even know what the Cocoa interface to the Apple Remote is, let alone having used it, let alone being able to troubleshoot it, and I don't imagine everyone here is an expert either... Hamish ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apple Remote and exclusivity
This might (or might not) help, FWIW: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?UsingTheAppleRemoteControl G. On 3 Jun 2008, at 7:02 pm, Hamish Allan wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Elan Feingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the lack of responses I'm guessing I posted this to the wrong list :-) Four hours you gave everyone in all the different timezones of the world to respond before giving up! I don't even know what the Cocoa interface to the Apple Remote is, let alone having used it, let alone being able to troubleshoot it, and I don't imagine everyone here is an expert either... Hamish ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/graham.cox%40bigpond.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apple Remote and exclusivity
There's been some changes to device seizing in Leopard. I've had some code of my own (albeit keyboard/barcode scanner stuff) that's been affected by it. http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2007/tn2187.html I'd think that the Apple remote wouldn't be affected (unless it's being interpreted as some kind of really tiny infra-red keyboard), but it's something to keep in mind. -- Ilan On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Elan Feingold wrote: Hi, The app I'm working on makes use of the Apple Remote; specifically, it runs a helper app (daemon) so that the app can be started with a press of the Apple Remote Menu button, and then passes key presses it receives to the app via UDP messages. I'm seeing two issues: 1) Even though I open the device with kIOHIDOptionsTypeSeizeDevice, I'm seeing times where it seems to lose exclusivity. I can't pin it to any specific event (i.e. wake from sleep, etc.), but it definitely seems to lose it after a period of time (hours, days). After that hitting the Menu button brings up both the application *and* Front Row, which is not exactly optimal :-) I read somewhere that if an application loses focus and then regains it, it should reopen the device to assure exclusivity. I'm not sure how this would work with a daemon that doesn't ever have focus in the application sense. 2) I'm seeing cases where key-presses on the Apple Remote are lost. It might be correlated with the actual application using a bit more CPU. I'm not sure if the process doing the Apple Remote reception needs to be run at a higher priority? Any help you could offer would be much appreciated! Thanks, -elan ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/listboy%40clarux.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apple Remote and exclusivity
On Jun 3, 2008, at 5:02 AM, Hamish Allan wrote: I don't even know what the Cocoa interface to the Apple Remote is, let alone having used it, let alone being able to troubleshoot it, and I don't imagine everyone here is an expert either... I don't believe there is a public API for it. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apple Remote and exclusivity
From the lack of responses I'm guessing I posted this to the wrong list :-) Can anyone suggest a better list to post to? Many thanks, -elan On Mon, Jun 2, at 9:44 AM, Elan Feingold wrote: Hi, The app I'm working on makes use of the Apple Remote; specifically, it runs a helper app (daemon) so that the app can be started with a press of the Apple Remote Menu button, and then passes key presses it receives to the app via UDP messages. I'm seeing two issues: 1) Even though I open the device with kIOHIDOptionsTypeSeizeDevice, I'm seeing times where it seems to lose exclusivity. I can't pin it to any specific event (i.e. wake from sleep, etc.), but it definitely seems to lose it after a period of time (hours, days). After that hitting the Menu button brings up both the application *and* Front Row, which is not exactly optimal :-) I read somewhere that if an application loses focus and then regains it, it should reopen the device to assure exclusivity. I'm not sure how this would work with a daemon that doesn't ever have focus in the application sense. 2) I'm seeing cases where key-presses on the Apple Remote are lost. It might be correlated with the actual application using a bit more CPU. I'm not sure if the process doing the Apple Remote reception needs to be run at a higher priority? Any help you could offer would be much appreciated! Thanks, -elan ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/elan%40bluemandrill.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apple Remote and exclusivity
On Jun 2, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Elan Feingold wrote: From the lack of responses I'm guessing I posted this to the wrong list :-) Can anyone suggest a better list to post to? Patience. You posted this recently. If someone has an answer, they'll give it to you. -- I.S. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
