[mythtv-commits] Ticket #2264: Mac OS X: lauch frontrow from media menu
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Tue Aug 29 15:06:52 UTC 2006
#2264: Mac OS X: lauch frontrow from media menu
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Reporter: mythtv at junk.kraney.com | Owner: nigel
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: mythtv | Version:
Severity: medium | Resolution: wontfix
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Comment (by mythtv at junk.kraney.com):
I do have to admit Isaac's right. When I thought about the script
solution, it's definitely a lot cleaner. Wish I'd thought of it before -
my myth newbieness is showing. My only excuse (such as it is) is the doc
for the EXEC command is under 'menu themes', so I hadn't noticed it
because 'themes' makes it sound cosmetic.
Actually, you can achieve exactly the same functionality I was trying to
implement with this !AppleScript:
{{{
tell application "System Events"
key code 53 using {command down}
delay 0.5
key code 53
end tell
}}}
and this addition to library.xml:
{{{
<button>
<type>MUSIC</type>
<text>Front Row</text>
<action>EXEC osascript /path/to/your/frontrow.scpt</action>
</button>
}}}
awk at awkward.org is right, there's not a (published) way for Front Row to
start another program; EyeTV is a lookalike, and activates front row from
a menu item, just like this.
However I think there is a way to get a much cleaner integration than
this. If I add DAAP and DPAP support to the backend, I should be able to
get the videos, pictures, and music to show up in Front Row as "Shared
Movies" etc., just like content on other Macs does. You can already get
music by installing mt-daapd on the backend. You wouldn't need
mythfrontend at all, until you wanted to update the schedule (which you
could do via mythweb instead) - but that's a topic for somewhere besides
this bug.
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Ticket URL: <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2264#comment:7>
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