Text Controls and Remote Control Input

[Ignorance]

Does anyone know the trick to getting a text control to work properly (eg. respond to double and tripple-presses on the remote control) in Media Center? I've been trying to script something to do the job, but it's NOT fun and not particularly easy.

[monster]

hey Ignorance - what u would do is use a timer event to catch the particular key and see if i was pressed again within some time value.

something like this...

    function onRemoteEvent(keyChar)
    {
      if (keyChar == YOURKEY)
      {
         //var keyDownTime = TIMERCODE;

         if ((keyDownTime - lastKeyDownTime < SOMETIME))
	{
               //so if the key is pressed twice within X secs then its
               //considered a double click so execute your code
	}
          
        lastKeyDownTime = keyDownTime;
      }
      
      return true;
    }

that should give u a rough idea anyway... as i used a very similar code in my flash actionscript project.

hope this helps

[Ignorance]

Yeah - I threw together something like that in the YouTube plugin, after stuffing around with it for a while. Due to all the other problems it caused, I ended up writing my OWN edit control rather than using a standard IE one.

It mostly works. You can't reposition the edit cursor, but most other functions seem to work OK.

I was under the delusion that MS would have produced something a little more reliable, but it looks like they just wanted to be difficult - again.