Bob, I don't have a Mac, and have done very very little applescripting, but surely, the better thing to do is have MythTV call an external player 'script', which both starts VLC *and* brings it to the foreground, all in one action.
That would be possible wouldn't it? Whytey On 6/19/05, Robert Karaffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have made a little progress. I can make VLC play videos from > MythVideo with this command: > > /Applications/vlc/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -I dummy > > the "-I dummy" part removes the GUI, leaving only the video window. > However, it will not come to the foreground without a little prompting. > I figured out a kludge that works, but it is neither elegant nor, um, > elegant. I created an Applescript: > > on run > tell application "System Events" > tell process "VLC" > set frontmost to true > end tell > end tell > end run > > Saved this applescript to the Desktop as "vlcfront". > > I use an ATI Remote Wonder II to control my Mac frontend, so I assigned > a key on the remote to run the above applescript. > > So, I choose a movie in MythVideo, start it playing, then push the > remote button that runs "vlcfront" and VLC becomes the frontmost > application and thus, I get to see the video window. Like I said, it > is a kludge, but it will suffice until I can figure a more, um, > elegant, urm, solution. YMMV. > > -Bob K. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- -- GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
