Odd Wired Remote?

[aeblank]

Hmmm, I bet it's because you dropped the KeyWait, Ctrl line.

I was able to get Send #!{Enter} to work as the green button, so it's doable. But if you dumped KeyWait, Ctrl on that one WMC could actually receive ^#!{Enter} and it doesn't do anything.

I tried it with and without KeyWait Ctrl.
Will look at it more later.
Thanks for your continued help.

[crawfish]

regarding sending the commands strictly in the background:

I've sent a PM to a user (crawfish)

Just saw your PM, and my first thought was ControlSend, but I see you guys have already determined it doesn't work with WMC. That's all I got, sorry!

[clintyg]

Bummer, but thanks for your input, crawfish.

I downloaded the Winspector Spy discussed here, but it did not pick up any additional info on the WMC window that would allow me to try AHK's PostMessage.

I'm certain that one could control WMC strictly in the background with a combination of AHK hotkeys and a TCP/IP controller (like MCE Controller or the no longer supported VMC Controller) but that again requires a software installation that I'm guessing would not work for aeblank.

[clintyg]

I'm certain that one could control WMC strictly in the background with a combination of AHK hotkeys and a TCP/IP controller (like MCE Controller or the no longer supported VMC Controller)

I was curious to check this out (more interested in controlling WMC from another machine than controlling strictly in the background of the same computer). So I tried this release of VMC controller because it includes http support, in addition to telnet. It only works on 64bit Windows (at least I assume so, based on the comments on that page).

While it works as advertised (on both http and telnet), it ALSO switches focus for some commands (the button- commands, which are the important ones for playback control).... so... I was wrong, and you can NOT control WMC in the background with it and AHK. Some commands DO work in the background (goto TVGuide brings up the guide, and doesn't change any window focus).

Anyway, it's possible that MCE Controller doesn't have this behavior, but I won't look into it further.

[aeblank]

This gets over my head pretty quick.....

I think this runs a program as a "gadget"? That's an entertaining option, but like I said, over my head.
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/3864 ... p-sidebar/

from this:
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/5874 ... -possible/