Please post your Front Row solutions here

salling · Last edited by salling on Fri May 11, 2007 3:57 pm; edited 3 times in total

There ya' go. I expect there to be several of them.

Edit: It hasn't happened yet, but please do not post links to Front Row in this forum. This space is for sharing scripts for Salling Clicker only.

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Jonas

marook · Hero Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 336 Location: Copenhagen

Well.. borrowed a lot from Salling scripts shipped with Clicker 3, and here you go!

siMac · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 5

Couldn't get the above script to work with my 'version' of FrontRow, so here's a script I cobbled together. Joystick to navigate/select, 'C' to go back, '0' to toggle Front Row on and off, side buttons to adjust system volume.

Sorry for the crudeness of the script, I'm new to Applescript.

If someone can help me get key repeating to work I'd be much obliged; I'd like to be able to hold the joystick in a direction to scroll through the lists or scan through music, as it is this script sends one keystroke then stops.

salling · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

siMac,

Check out Marooks script; it doesn't do what you're asking for, but it's a trivial matter to handle key repeat events too, and send the up/down keystrokes multiple times.

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Jonas

iNemo · Newbie Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 12 Location: In a Field.

Check out my post on my blog about front row - http://applemacfreak.com/244.

Its not all plain sailing for us bleeding edge people...

salling · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject:

Thanks for this cautionary note about playing around with software found in the wild. YMMV, Caveat Emptor, etc. applies. Whenever making changes in the System folder, make sure to backup first.

zacky · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 1

Hi there,

I created the complete Apple Scripts to control Front Row.

The only thing that you have to do by yourself is to drop the scripts on the appropriate key you wanna use for "FrontRow active" etc.

If there is a oppurtunity to automate this (and I'm sure there is one) feel free to do this ;-)

The "leave" script only works if you have this script related with e.g. F8

salling · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject:

zacky: the backlight is left on for 10 minutes. This is probably for the better, as the K750 (et al) lock their keys really fast otherwise, requiring two clicks to make something happen.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to prevent keylock without lighting up the display.

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Jonas

Linz · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

salling · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject:

Please allow me to doubt that. The scripts are sending the same keycodes, from what I can tell. And iNemo had the problem without running any scripts, right?

Cheers.
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Jonas

marook · Hero Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 336 Location: Copenhagen

Sorry, forgot to mention that my script will only work with Clicker 3 (on Mac). If it don't, upgrade... ;-) or post where it fails...

Linz · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 7

salling · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:40 pm Post subject:

This can be easily fixed in the scripts, and I'll leave that to the contributors. ;-)

Cheers.
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Jonas

siMac · Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 5

salling · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:

What's the name of the Front Row app, as stated when launched? The script checks for Front Row availability by process name, and I'm thinking perhaps you're on a non-English system (or perhaps the name is mangled).

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Jonas