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multi media keyboard not working in minimised mode

Post by Felix Atagong »

My multimedia keyboard works fine when Songs-DB is the visible open application, but not when Songs-DB is minimised to the tray or when another application hides Songs-db, like Internet Explorer does now when I'm typing this. I'm using the internal player of Songs-DB, not an external one.

Keys not working: play/pause, forward, backwards, stop.
Keys working: mute sound, volume, sound setup.

Keyboard is: French Azerty dell keyboard, came with Santa Cruz - Turtle Beach sound card, Win XP.

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Post by Octopod »

Same problem for me... (command is displayed as OSD but that's all).
Mute and volume +/- are ok as they are system-controlled i think.

Windows XP and french AZERTY keyboard as well !


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Post by rusty »

Thanks to both of you for the feedback. The next beta should have this resolved, though we'll need your help to test the fix.
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Post by rusty »

Fixed in beta 4. Let me know if it works for you please.

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Post by Octopod »

Hi,

I just tested my MM keyboard with the new beta 4 (1.519).

Well, still not working when SDB is minimized... :-?

But buttons now react when SDB is displayed (new feature for me: did not work with previous betas).

Here is a state of the buttons reactions when SDB is displayed:

- Play/Pause:
1. Nothing happens when a song is played
2. "Pause" is activated on the player when no song is currently playing :o

- Stop: No reaction

- Rew (resp. Fwd): Working but... when i'm playing track #3, it jumps to track #1 (resp. #5). If "Now playing" is displayed, track #2 is quickly in bold characters (resp. #4) before track #1 (resp. #5) is finally played... (note that keeping one of these buttons pushed, a very unpleasant sound is produced and SDB finally hangs and must be killed.

Well, sorry for those bad news... I have to notice i have a VERY CHEAP mm keyboard (french AZERTY), not a Logitech or MS one!

Volume +/- still working as well as "Mute".

I hope this can help you (perhaps someone could confirm the behaviours i observe).
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Post by Felix Atagong »

Octopod wrote:(perhaps someone could confirm the behaviours i observe).
Just downloaded the new build and I can see no differences with the multimedia keyboard. The play/pause, next and previous track buttons do not work in minimised and hidden mode. Mute, volume (+ or -) and Santa Cruz Settings buttons work, but as was observed earlier these are system-controlled rather than software controlled.

In active mode the buttons work fine and I don't have the strange behaviour Octopod has.

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Post by rusty »

:-? Maybe I should have invested in a $20 keyboard...

Anyhow, I think it's really fixed (in the latest internal builds--tested with a keyboard emulator), and you'll get another try in the next beta...
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Post by Felix Atagong »

I really appreciate your efforts, Rusty. BTW, my Dell/Santa Cruz - very expensive - keyboard is a sucker also as the volume button never seems to react properly. I mostly adjust volume with the volume icon at the system tree to get some 'fine' tuning. :cry: But I'm looking forward to the new build!
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Post by rusty »

Thank Jiri--he actually fixed it ;-)
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Post by rusty »

This was fixed again in beta 5. Let me know if you have any problems.
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Multi Media Keyboard Bug Has Been Resolved

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Bug's been fixed! Thanks.
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Post by Octopod »

Well...

I'm not lucky, it's not working for me.

All is ok in "active mode" but i observe a lot of problems after the 1st "stop" in minimized mode (songs jumped by backward/forward, play/pause without effect, ...)

I repeat i own a VERY CHEAP MM keyboard and perhaps it is TOO CHEAP for such "advanced" functions... :wink:

Happy to know it's ok for Felix!
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Post by rusty »

If anyone else has experience similar to Octopod's please comment.
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Post by Peke »

Yap! Me too.

MMKeys works fine with SDB active but in minimize mode :cry:

I have found that MMkeys are alocated for active Window and not for tray Icon :( well possible problem as I see is in keyb. driver and windows calls which minimized program puts on Idle and desktop (explorer.exe in W9x) as active for mmkeys so SDB do not recognise pressed key as Windows do not know for which program MMKey Action is intendent.

I have Turbo Vision MMKeyboard with 23 MMkeys KE-9801.
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Post by Felix Atagong »

Just downloaded the monkey business :lol: and tested my keyboard, it still works well. However (and that was already the case with the previous build) when I want to lower or put louder the sound, my Multimedia keyboard ONLY does that for the internal Songs-DB, sorry!, MediaMonkey player and not for the complete 'soundcard' if you know wadda'mean.
An example may help: in the past (the first builds of the new beta), when the volume was already on the maximum on the internal player putting the volume louder had an effect on the 'MASTER VOLUME' settings, and when the internal volume was already on the minimum lowering the sound also lowered the 'MASTER VOLUME'. Now my volume button only affects MediaMonkey itself (when that application is open, of course). I don't call that a bug, I can live with that. All the rest works OK for me!
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