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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2008Apple Remote and Front Row?
Does an Apple Remote have to do all its interacting with a laptop through iPhoto? More specifically, can the Apple Remote send Arrow key commands (just for example) into other applications that happen to be running? (e.g., an Adobe Acrobat slide show, or a QuickTime movie slide show? And can it do this even when iPhoto is not present on my laptop? (which it doesn't happen to be) In my case, pressing the button on the remote brings up the splash screen with the four large icons on it, so the remote is working and it's not disabled in the System Preferences -- but nothing much seems to happen beyond that, except a message that iPhoto is not installed. >Does an Apple Remote have to do all its interacting with a laptop >through iPhoto? > >More specifically, can the Apple Remote send Arrow key commands (just >for example) into other applications that happen to be running? (e.g., >an Adobe Acrobat slide show, or a QuickTime movie slide show? Interesting question, I don't have a laptop, and usually use my Apple Remote when iPhoto isn't running - to control iTunes. >> Does an Apple Remote have to do all its interacting with a laptop >> through iPhoto? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Interesting question, I don't have a laptop, and usually use my Apple > Remote when iPhoto isn't running - to control iTunes. I agree, interesting idea. I never thought to try it. So I put a video on in VLC, the app I use to run AVIs and MPGs, and the remote works with that! Kool! I also tried the remote with iPhoto. It started a slide show. Nice. But iPhoto doesn't have to be running to use the remote. >> More specifically, can the Apple Remote send Arrow key commands (just >> for example) into other applications that happen to be running? (e.g., >> an Adobe Acrobat slide show, or a QuickTime movie slide show? It can if you use RemoteBuddy: <http://www.iospirit.com/index.php?mode=view&obj_type=infogroup&obj_id=24> |
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