killermink
Jan 4, 2004, 09:14 AM
Hello,
Firstly I apologise if this has been covered before, but I have tried searching this and other forums and Google etc but cannot find any discussion on it...
The Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard as we all know has buttons for controlling Windows Media Player and other things, but these do not work in 10.3. However, seeing as the Volume, Mute, Sleep work, it must be a simple thing to activate.
So my first question is has anyone actually got these to work? (I am assuming not otherwise I would have found the answer...)
If the above is No, then shouldn't it be quite easy to get these buttons working? When pressed, they must send some kind of signal to the computer, which is then dropped by the OS and no action taken... In which case if we found out these signals and could somehow monitor them, then when recieved it could run some kind of script for action. The obvious example would be iTunes to skip forward or back or Finder to open a certain folder.
I am not a good programmer (Hello World!) but feel that this would be quite easy... just a simple daemon to monitor the keyboard input for certain commands then the running of a simple script... surely?
Maybe this could also work for the mouse navigation buttons (though I find them mapped to Expose invaluable now).
As a side note, Microsoft do release drivers for the non bluetooth version of the Wireless Desktop, which has exactly the same layout... maybe they could be hacked?
Firstly I apologise if this has been covered before, but I have tried searching this and other forums and Google etc but cannot find any discussion on it...
The Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard as we all know has buttons for controlling Windows Media Player and other things, but these do not work in 10.3. However, seeing as the Volume, Mute, Sleep work, it must be a simple thing to activate.
So my first question is has anyone actually got these to work? (I am assuming not otherwise I would have found the answer...)
If the above is No, then shouldn't it be quite easy to get these buttons working? When pressed, they must send some kind of signal to the computer, which is then dropped by the OS and no action taken... In which case if we found out these signals and could somehow monitor them, then when recieved it could run some kind of script for action. The obvious example would be iTunes to skip forward or back or Finder to open a certain folder.
I am not a good programmer (Hello World!) but feel that this would be quite easy... just a simple daemon to monitor the keyboard input for certain commands then the running of a simple script... surely?
Maybe this could also work for the mouse navigation buttons (though I find them mapped to Expose invaluable now).
As a side note, Microsoft do release drivers for the non bluetooth version of the Wireless Desktop, which has exactly the same layout... maybe they could be hacked?
