Development - Remote Control

[Skarn]

Hello, I wanted to have a go at making some programs for use with media center edition.

I am making an interface and can call it up from within mce, and it just sits ontop of the media center window as a seperate app.

The thing I need to do is implement responding to the remote control.

I am only using JScript/VBscript, but not using a 'webpage' 'addin' where it runs within mce, so I was wondering if anyone knows if you can access the remote control feedback via vbscript events or anything?

For example, when I want to work with the file system object in vbscript, I just assign it to an object variable, and then I can access all the events and properties of the fso. Is there something similar for MCE??

Thankyou for your help. :-)

[davidgol]

All the remotes that work with MCE simply act as keyboards and send keyboard 'keystroke' events to MCE. As long as your program can receive keyboard key strokes, then you should be right. In fact, if you know the mapping you can do everything that your remote can do, with the keyboard.

Now all you need is to know which remote control key generates which keyboard key. For that, you want to go here:

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/prod...asp?Product=42

hope this helps.

[Skarn]

Thankyou for your help. My question now is whether this will also cover people who use a proper MCE remote too. Does it also just send keyboard commands?

If this is the case, excellent, I can be sure by responding to keyboard commands when my window is active will work with the remote.

Thankyou again.
Skarn