John Stalberg wrote: > Benjamin Esham wrote: > > > I'm writing to ask if there is any way to display a bezel upon pressing > > [the play or pause keys], similarly to how a bezel is displayed on > > pressing one of the display brightness, keyboard brightness, or sound > > keys. That would be great as a hard-to-miss visual indicator that the > > system did in fact receive my keypress. Does any existing utility do > > this, or can anyone think of a way to hack this together? > > I'm sitting on the subway unable to look in to it but what crossed my mind > is you should at least check what Growl (Gooooogle it if you havn't a link > already) can do for you here. It can at least do this for some events but > I'm far from sure it listens and react exactly as you wish. Responses to > events is highly adjustable but the list of possible events is > preconfigured and static. If Growl doesn't offer what you want out of the > box I think it is a good start if you're willing to do some coding.
Good idea. I'm already familiar with Growl (from the user side, not the developer side). I checked out GrowlTunes, a small iTunes-watching app bundled with Growl, but it only offers notifications when new songs start playing, not every time iTunes pauses or plays. Moreover, I gather that it polls iTunes at intervals of c. 10 seconds, making it inappropriate for this application (I would want confirmation of a keypress within a second of pressing a key). > But before you do dive in to the code you ought to check if this actually > is already implemented in the system/iTunes but isn't turned on. There are > plenty of Apple-implemented stuff that is hidden and off. You usually find > them as a 'defaults' parameter. This one, if it exist would probably be a > boolean. Since such hidden Apple-stuff is, well hidden, there might be > some difficulties finding them. Or you might be in luck and find a list > with all of them. Or something in between. I'll look into that. I'm not sure where to look though... if my desired feature exists, it would be in a system or keyboard plist instead of an iTunes one, since the play/pause buttons basically apply to whichever application is in front: iTunes, Quicktime Player, Movist, etc. Thanks for the response, -- Benjamin D. Esham | [email protected] God: HEY DID YOU KNOW I CAN SEE YOUR DREAMS T-REX T-Rex: Oh wow! I think it’s SO AWESOME that you’ll spy on my dreams, but won’t approve my friend request on Facebook Dot Com!! God: UH — Dinosaur Comics _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
