[Rand Al Thor]

I am trying to do recreate a keyboard press. I found in wiki the section that says you can do this using:

To send a keyboard event set buttoncode to F100 (hex) and add the required key’s ASCII value.

I have tried several different ways of doing this. What is the proper way?

I have tried:
http://xbox/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=SendKey(F100;1B)

http://xbox/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=SendKey=F100;1B


Also, I am assuming I should use the Hex value from the ASCII charts? So I would use 1B to simulate the Escape key?
I am sure I am missing something obvious here, as is usually the case. It is probably a formatting issue.

Any help would be appreciated. Cheers.

[spiff]

Sendkey(F100+1B)

see, ADD the ascii value.

[Rand Al Thor]

Sendkey(F100+1B)

see, ADD the ascii value.

Haha! Yeah.... I knew it would be something simple like that. Thanks spiff

[Rand Al Thor]

Strange, I just tested this on windows r18457 and it seems to have no effect? Can you verify that it works spiff?

[Rand Al Thor]

Just a friendly bump

For the life of me, I still can't get this to work.

http://xbox/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=SendKey(F100+1B)


I know the webserver is working as this command works:
http://xbox/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=SendKey(11)

[spiff]

uhm, what i meant (i havent really tested this) was

SendKey(F11B)

that is the SUM of F100 and the ascii code in question. you know, adding numbers

[Rand Al Thor]

uhm, what i meant (i havent really tested this) was

SendKey(F11B)

that is the SUM of F100 and the ascii code in question. you know, adding numbers

Yeah, I actually tried that as well (even though I did initially try it with a + sign because I can be pretty dense some times )

[spiff]

rite'o. then it needs some diggin', ticket it please

[Rand Al Thor]

Will do Spiff. Thanks for working with me and my troubles interpreting the obvious


http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6092

Once this has been fixed I will request ninja status and add a little more information to the wiki, maybe even a working example. That might clear up the confusion for other users as well. Cheers.

[Rand Al Thor]

Big thanks to Wiso for fixing this. Works great

[Rand Al Thor]

Doing a little more testing on this today. I am working on some new features for our XBMC Remote. Everything I have tested so far seems to working ok except for "\" which should toggle fullscreen. I have test on both Mac and Windows @ rev 19724. Can anyone else confirm?

Code:

http://xbmc/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=SendKey(0xF05C)

Cheers,
Rand

[jmarshall]

Try 0xF0EC. See guilib/common/SDLKeyboard.cpp for instance.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[Rand Al Thor]

Try 0xF0EC. See guilib/common/SDLKeyboard.cpp for instance.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Ah, cheers I see it now. Strange, I have always seen it as "5C"

No matter, it works

Rand

[jitterjames]

Is it possible to send a modified keypress using this method?

example: Shift-F

I would like to be able to use this to jump to items (say artists) that start with a certain letter (in the case of my example 'F')

tia

[koko1967k]

Is it possible to send a modified keypress using this method?

example: Shift-F

I would like to be able to use this to jump to items (say artists) that start with a certain letter (in the case of my example 'F')

tia

I would be interested too in knowing what is the key code of a key + shift:
I mean if key 'E' has a keycode = 0xF045, what is the keycode for Shift+E (or Ctrl+E, etc.)?

thanks