ITunes Media Key Mapper - Detect When Media Keys Are Pressed While App Is Out Of Focus?
May 9, 2010
im working on a little app for my self, to make my life a little more convenient. I have some media keys on my laptop, and I would like to use them with itunes while it is minimized. I found a app that did it for me a long time ago, but cant seem to find it now. But I would like to try my hand at my own, and I've managed to do so, but, my app has to be in focus for it to work. is there any way to still detect when these media keys are pressed while my app is out of focus?
I am using the media player control in my VB2010 project and hit a problem. I want to detect when a user has pressed the "next " button on the media player console.I can use the following code to detect the pause, play, fast forward, etc but I do not see anything that will detect when the "next" button is pressed.
I am attempting to consume my Zenfolio RSS feed so that i can display the images in the feed. How can i access the url value of the media:thumbnail and media:content elements in my RSS feed? I have googled high and low and not found an answer regarding how to access the url value. There was a similiar unanswered SO post.
Examples of the elements: <media:thumbnail url="http://riderdesign.net/img/s11/v35/p449020235-2.jpg" width="400"
how one would be able to detect what keys are pressed. The problem is i want this done while my application is running in the background. There are alot of examples of doing it when yu are is what you are busy with. My scenario. I have an app process running in the background hidden. The when i press ctrl and t as an example i would like my form displayed.
I have been searching the forums but I keep finding ways to cause events to occur when a key is pressed. I'm trying to get a true/false if the "ctrl" + "L" keys are pressed when the form loads so it know whether to show itself or close
I am messing around with the WMPLib component provided by Windows Media Player 12 (wmp.dll) in VB.NET with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
I am trying to retrieve a media item from my media library based on its name (assuming there are no duplicate names). At the moment, I'm grabbing the entire media library, and looping through every media item, and quitting the loop when I've found the correct media item. This works well (except for when a media item with that name cannot be found), but I was hoping there was a more efficient way of doing this.
Here is my code so far:
Public Class WMPTest Private myWMP As WMPLib.IWMPCore Private myMediaCollection As WMPLib.IWMPMediaCollection
[Code]......
So what I really want is a way to optimize findTrack() to do its thing without looping through the entire media library (which could be huge).
I have created a media player (vb.net 2005) using the media player control. Plays fine when using open dialog box and url. I have set my player as the default player but when I click on a media file, the player will open but not play. I am sure it has to do with on open event and coding the url to see the selected file just like any other media player out there.
I use the media player tool in my program and just found out that some people get a serious exception on the loading of the program if they choose not to enable media player. How can I make it so that if they don't have media player enabled that the program won't crash?
I don't know where the designer puts the info to load certain controls, nor do I know how to make the program skip loading a control if it doesn't work.
I need to detect if a [blank] media (CD/DVD) is inserted into the D: drive for an internal software I'm writing. The drive is static as drive D:. How can I tell if media is inserted, first off, and secondly, is it possible to tell if it's blank?
I am developing a vb.net media application using Windows Media Player which is working fairly well. However, I am having problems where the Function key handler will stop working after doing anything on the media control panel, i.e. mute, move the slider etc. So long as I don't touch the panel everything continues to work. I'm using the function keys to pull up menus for selecting other media and if I do anything with the control panel I can no longer display the menus.
I am writing a Media Centre Addin in Vb.net and it was all going good until i got to the point where i want to find the "Currently Playing song FilePath or URl"I have spend a number of hours racking my brain to figure out a way of seeing what the "Currently Opened Files" are on a machine at any point of time. My idea is to get all the currently opened files, and then filter the Extensions from these and find the media item that is currently playing, and get the filepath.Does anyone know how i can do this? and what methods or classes or Librarys i should be looking at or importing In..
I have a problem detecting whether one of the arrow keys is pressed, all the other keys seem to be detected apart from the arrow keys??? I have set key preview to True........ It detects the arrrow keys BUT ONLY if I have NO other controls on the form??? example..
Me.Text = e.keycode
It works, but then if I add a button for example, it stops.
I want to be able to go open URL in wmp and put in http://mycomputer:8090 and have it play a media file ... like it does if i host the media file on a web site...sofar i have:
Private Sub HTTPStreamer(ByVal Reciever As IO.Stream) System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000) Dim listener As New System.Net.Sockets.TcpListener("localhost", 8090)
So basicly ive made a media player in vb using the windows media player control and everything is fine except that when i use the trackbar to navigate on a video it starts stopping and starting like a scratched cd (there is nothing wrong with the video file) strangely this does not happen whilst playing audio files the shaking stops if i pause it for a second ant then play it again but incorporating a pause in the trackbar function does not help. This the code i found on the internet but this produces the same result:[code]...
i have windows app to run media filethe problem i fix the file path ex:cxyzdesktopxyz.wavwhen i try to run the application from other machine give me message error file not found because of the file path is change to
I have created 2 forms: "Form1" and "Form2"....Form1 is MDIcontainer and it contains Form2. In Form2 I have inserted the windows media player OCX. When I run the program and try to set the media player to fullscreen (via command button) appears an error: {"Errore irreparabile (Eccezione da HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))"}
Here's the Public Class Form2 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.fullScreen = True [Code] .... If I open a new project and I copy the code and the media player it works! I think problem is when I use MDIforms.
