Thread: FrontRow Remote

He sent it to me and I have a pretty good idea what caused it. Or rather, I discovered a lot of things that might have caused it (and were making trouble for me too) and have since fixed those things to the best of my ability.
Anyhow, new version out. Same download link, here. With this one, a touch (or click) anywhere on the screen will bring up the much-larger-and-now-centered controls, which will then neatly disappear once you're done with them. One slight side-effect of this is that your screen displays color 5% darker than it usually would... if anyone knows how to get a window to catch mouse events without being visible, please fill me in.

One thing i'm noticing is that the controls hide after a menu is selected that will take you to another page and you have to press the screen or click in order to restore the controls. Is there any way to have it not do this?

Edit:

Ok nevermind. The screen is timing out not dissappearing. can you make it about a secind longer before time out?

Aslo can you set the transparency higher so it doesn't block whats behind the screen completely?


Chanse

Mahalis, you're a frickin' genius!!! Downloaded the new app and that's almost EXACTLY what I'm looking for! I agree with CArringt in that the transparency needs to be higher than 0% because it's too hard to see what's behind the controls. I think a transparency of 50% would be doable, just slightly higher than what you had before when the app was not being used.

I don't know how to catch events without being visible, but think the 5% dimming is perfectly acceptable. If you can figure out how to get that 5% back, great, if not, no big deal.

Again, man, just fantastic! And how fast you got that done. If only Apple and others were as good...

One little nitpick suggestion, could you make the outside "wheel" wider? Say about 50-75% wider? That would make it a little easier to maneuver while driving.

Thanks a million,
Adam

Originally Posted by breadman

One little nitpick suggestion, could you make the outside "wheel" wider? Say about 50-75% wider? That would make it a little easier to maneuver while driving.

Thanks a million,
Adam

I agree but take the width from the center play/pause button instead of increasing the total size of the control

mahalis,

i just downloaded the latest build you posted. i love the new look. i'm still having some issues though. random quits are still there (remote closes out and disappears and upon exiting front row i get the report).

also, fast scrolling isn't working for me. when i hold down the button it starts to fast scroll but won't stop when i let off the mouse click. i get a beach ball and it goes all the way to the end of the artist list before accepting the next command.

again, i feel like im so close... thanks for all of your hard work on this.

Updated again - thicker ring, more transparency, some minor code improvements. [Download]

This version is the best yet and I think final....except I ran into a problem. When I get out of Front Row and back to the desktop, the FR Remote program is still running and covers the entire screen (including toolbar and dock). I have not found a way to get out of the program. I can move my mouse under the screen, but I don't have a keyboard hooked up so I can't Open-Apple Q.

Does anyone know of a way to get out of the program without programming a hotkey that Open-Apple Qs by pressing a button on my phone in Salling Clicker?

Best Regards,
Adam

Well, I'm still having issues with the newest version that was posted in the first post of this thread.

Now let me preface this by saying that perhaps it's something to do with my setup. I am testing this on my desktop power mac g5 dual 1.8. I do have some usb items plugged in including a kensington wireless mac desktop. Since others dont seem to be having the issues I'm having them maybe its related to that.

That said, when I am on the artists menu and hold down the down button using my mouse it starts fast scrolling however when I let off the down button on the "remote" it still scrolls to the end of the artist list and never stops. It gives me the beach ball while doing this. It then performs a few actions (i probably press the play/pause button trying to quit) and then force quits giving me an error report.

Again, not sure if this is related to my computer/setup or my version of frontrow (hacked version that was first released, never updated to any other version).

Here's the report from my latest quit: