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TheGood · Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 580

I don't understand. The remote in my tutorial is also an RF remote. What part of the tutorial does not apply to you? Is it that you can't find the registry key? If that's the case, you can try navigating to your remote's corresponding key and see if the ReportMappingTable value has the same structure as the one I use in the tutorial (ie. 7 bytes per button). I can't guarantee that it'll work the same way, but it's worth a try.

If this doesn't work for you, please read the section titled "How do I stop the default keypresses coming out of my device?" in the very first post to see what the possible solutions are. But I'm pretty sure you should be able to use the registry trick. Is your receiver a USB device? Can you also post a picture of your remote (or find one similar on the net)?

justinsmith2009 · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 6

I tried the reportmapping table, it does affect the regular IR remotes but not this one. I am not able to do anything with this remote. I will check the other solutions.

bidomo · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 59

Hey TheGood...

Thanks for the debugging tip, I'm gonna start on it right now and post Back.
::UPDATE:: Log included.

TheGood · Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 580

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tetralite · Joined: 20 Apr 2010 Posts: 6 Location: Seattle

Hello TheGood -- Could these HID techniques be capable of detecting buttons 6 & 7 of a 7-button mouse? The USB data byte is the same one for all buttons with the bits representing the buttons like this: x 7 6 5 4 M R L (x being the most significant bit where an 8th button might go). The raw USB mouse data input (to host) is typical of most mice. This one uses four data bytes, the first being the button byte mentioned above, then three more bytes for x, y and wheel. This is a mouth-operated 7-button USB mouse I am developing for disabled people. The seven buttons all work. On an iMac running USB Overdrive it recognizes all 7 buttons. USB Overdrive is similar to what I would want to develop using AHK. It allows you to assign key presses, key press combinations, other mouse buttons, etc. to any of the mouse buttons using a GUI -- an easy AHK project if it weren't for the fact that AHK doesn't recognize buttons 6 & 7 out of the box. A program that already exists that does this on a Windows machine is X-Mouse, but it only recognizes 5 buttons. I have also run USB analyzing programs on Windows machines and the button presses show up in the data as expected, so I know it is possible for a Windows machine to see those button bits. It looks to me (at first glance), that your AHKHID methods might be able to grab that button data in order to work with it as an input in AHK. I know also, from browsing this forum, there are others that would be happy with a method of detecting more than 5 mouse buttons. Thanks for your time.

TheGood · Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 580

tetralite · Joined: 20 Apr 2010 Posts: 6 Location: Seattle

To answer your questions:
In example 1 it shows up as a mouse *only* under the mouse tab.
In example 3 the 4th and 5th buttons do show up as Xbutton1 and Xbutton2.

The 4 data bytes I mentioned are simply the input buffer bytes that carry mouse data from the mouse to the host in a USB input transaction. The first byte is the button data byte, the second byte is for the x coordinate, the third for y coord and the fourth is wheel movement data. I only need to access the button byte (or get all four) and mask for the bits for buttons 6 & 7 and do actions accordingly.

In example 2, I get all zeros for the button data when I push buttons 6 & 7. I get two lines, one for press and one for release, as with the other buttons, but all quantities are zero. I get the proper numbers for press and release of all other buttons (L, R, M, X1 & X2). So when I push buttons 6 & 7, it appears that it is recognizing that a data string has been received, but it is not returning a value other than 0 for all of the button flags and data.

(btw, I have run sniffer programs that show raw USB data and in those programs I do see the bits for buttons 6 & 7. Also, more proof that the mouse works is because all 7 buttons work on a Mac running the USB Overdrive app.)

I understand your code example (I think) except how do I read the variable *data*? This is, I'm sure, something I would know if I had already studied your documentation, which I haven't really done yet.

The fact that the registration example returns zeros during button 6 & 7 actions is telling me that these bits are being ignored or masked out somewhere along the line, but it does report the zeros which I believe only confirms that a data transaction occurred.

TheGood · Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 580

tetralite · Joined: 20 Apr 2010 Posts: 6 Location: Seattle

fenix · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 66

Whats the easiest way to get data from the example 2 script?

i cant copy it?

TheGood · Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 580

Jack_Aubrey · Joined: 13 May 2010 Posts: 4

Hi i have done a simply keyboard map script but I will like it to work just with one keyboard so I keep unmapped the other one. I tried to see if them has different TLC's but they use the very same (1, 6) there is another way just to select the signal coming from the one i want?

TheGood · Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 580

Jack_Aubrey · Joined: 13 May 2010 Posts: 4

I just dont know how it work the InputMsg() and where i supposed to include the name (this its easy to get... the only thing i get in clear XD). It's been a long time since i dont programming, the script its just using the :: and the definition from the keylist . Look the code from my script is just this :