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Hey cracksloth,


You're right. Really sorry about that! I fixed the script.

As for your code, your main problem lies here:



Compare this to the code found in the remote script:


AHKHID_GetInputData only puts the data in the variable uData. It doesn't return the key pressed in iKey, so doing SendInput %iKey% is not what you want to do.

If you want to extract the key from uData, you need to find out which byte(s) it is in uData (in my example, it was the 6th byte).

If you just want to spit out all of uData, then you can do something like this:

which is exactly what I did when I modified Example 2 for the 3rd step of my tutorial.

thanks so much for your patience and help! i'm probably attempting some modifications that are beyond my skill level! as for the changes, i actually tried that first but I get the following error at that line:

Error: Call to nonexistent function

Am I missing an include? Again, in case I'm missing something, it is pasted below:

You need Bin2Hex (which is part of Example 2 as well).
Also, you need to put braces after your if statements to have more than one line belong to it (otherwise it'll only own the first line). Read here and, more generally, here.

Hope this helps!

Hi there, I'm trying to simulate the keypress of the backlit keyboard button on my keyboard.

It's on the F6 key, pressing it normally acts as the backlit keyboard function (turns it on/off/half power), and pressing FN + F6 makes it act like a regular F6 key. Using example 2 however, I was unable to make the button register, with or without using the FN key.

For the record, the FN key does not register either. The laptop I am using is the dell studio 15.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Oh, I forgot to mention. It might (not sure about this) be useful for you guys to know that when I press the backlit keyboard button (as the backlit function, not as the F6 key with FN), the active window seems to lose focus for a second - and the class " #32770" becomes the active window in windowspy. Not sure if this helps.

Anyways, I hope someone can shed some light on this. I appreciate your time, thanks again.

Ended up simulating the keypress by using control send with windows mobility center slider that controls the backlit keyboard.

Thanks for anyone who considered though.

Hello Studio,

Sorry for the late reply! Glad to hear you figured out a workaround.


It sounds like this is something that happens at a lower level than what AHKHID can access. If you've already tried accessing HID devices other than the keyboard, then I don't think there's much else you can try!
According to the famous Mystery of the Fn key tutorial, you might be able to get something by using Usage/UsagePage 1/12.

I added support for AHK_L 64-bit. I also updated the example scripts so that they work with either version of AHKHID.

As a side note, I was torn between releasing a universal AHKHID instead of two separate ones. In the end I decided against it to keep it clean and I suppose (if you're like me) people keep their x64 scripts apart from their x86 ones.

I have a device:
VID:18EF
PID:E015
Revision:0000

Now i will write this 01 06 F1 1B 1B 00 10 00 00 00 00 to the HID-Device.

How can i do this?

Great stuff!

I was wondering how I could map a simple Run C:\1.pls to number button 1 and Run C:\2.pls to number button 2?

VLC is associated with .pls so it will just start certain internet radio stations depending on which .pls is called.

Are there direct buttons to map for the 1-9 number keys? I see your code is a bit more complicated and I'm not a big programmer.

Something like this? Numberbutton1::Run, C:\1.pls

It took me a while to figure out how to get this working but I figured out an easy way to find your Gosub Labels or simply the data the script is getting from your remote.

On page 1 of this topic, 2nd post Tutorial, #4 Creating A Script " TheGood" Shows us the script he uses to control media players. Toward the bottom find the IsLabel and Gosub commands, comment them out and add this message box command under them.


Prefix = What media player or window is in focus when the button was pushed.
Key = What the script is getting from your remote.
Label = The combination of the two which is the names for your Gosubs.

Run the script and for every button press you get a pop up telling you what your Label is. Notice that the label changes if you have media players in focus when pushing a button. This was a brilliant idea to make the remote context sensitive, ie. only work on the window in focus. So you will need to have your media players in focus to get the correct Labels for them.

For me it was necessary to set the NumGet offset to 1 but play with this to see what works best for your remote.


Don't forget to go through the rest of the script and change it to recognize your remote.

Thank you TheGood for creating the wonderful script.

In TheGoods tutorial script just add the commands to your Gosubs. It would look something like this.

Remember that VLC would have to be the active window for this to work. If you want to always have the button active instead of VCL_1 use DEFAULT_1 which will work unless one of the media player is active.

Good luck

Hi

please help I tryed runninh AHKHID nothing happens, the script just stop immidiatly

I tryed to run example 1 2 3 I get a error message "non existing script AHKHID"

Please tell me what I am missing out

I read the documentation try the tutorial but cannot find any indication on what to do or what I am doing wrong

thanks

ok I managed to get it working, in fact all I was not doing is copy paste of example into AHKHID

But no change for me my device is not listed as a HID device

Dose anybody have an idea how I could get hold of my device?

thanks

I'll try to give you a hand since it looks like this topic isn't viewed much. What type of device is it your trying to find what OS are you using and what are you trying to do with it when you've found it?

I don't want to take away from this great app but I would suggest using EventGhost to at least find your device and may be better for using them also.
[url]"http://www.eventghost.org/forum/"[/url]

It sees my Gyromote which is a very odd input device and it sees all the buttons where HIDAHK misses a few. It can also see many other types of input devices if it's not an HID class device. And it's also easy to assign actions to the buttons with many, many included preset actions. It's possible there is already a plugin for your device.

So that would be my first suggestion. If that won't work for you then I can try to help with this app. Start by answering the above questions.