Keyboard media controls only work when SMPlayer is focused

[Cavi Mike]

Can they be made to work at all times?

[rvm]

If the smplayer window is not focused, it doesn't receive key events.

[Cavi Mike]

Yes, that's why I asked if there was a way to change it. Like WinAmp or Windows Media Player where it can receive them at all times.

[rvm]

I don't know how those programs do it.

[MacTheKnife]

In a similar vein, there's a bunch of mouse key functions that only work when the pointer is in the video frame and a video is playing, but they don't work when playing audio only files.

For example, I have the "forward" and "backward" buttons on my mouse mapped to "skip medium" and "skip short", but they only work for video files and not for audio files.

Would it be possible to make the video frame still accept mouse clicks when playing audio only files so that the mouse keys will work in that case too?

[Cavi Mike]

I found a guy who did it for iTunes:
http://jonathangiles.net/blog/?p=258

The source code and whatnot is here:
http://jonathangiles.net/blog/wp-conten ... stener.zip

Any way you could adapt it?

[rvm]

[Cavi Mike]

They're only listening if they're running. I don't know about you but I've never tried to watch a movie on one player and listen to music on another at the same time. But I do like to surf the internet while I have my music videos playing on my TV.

[Cavi Mike]

How would I go about modifying this? Do I need special software?

[rvm]

I guess you'd need the Java SDK.