Add pg-up and pg-down to current version for remote control

If you have been following my posts, I am attempting to remote-control DMXControl using a standard PowerPoint type remote control. These send page-up and page-down commands to control a PowerPoint slide show. I imagine other users of DMXControl would like this feature.

You have mentioned and expansion of the keyboard control in the next version, but this current version is the one that can do all the multi-media stuff. There are programs for the Android platform that allow you to send keystrokes to you Windows machine, but having physical buttons to press is helpful because you can just reach into your pocket to grab the remote and trigger the next scene.

I imagine this particular change would not be difficult. Simply add page-up and page-down as the keystrokes used to change the scene. I would say to replace the "G" and backspace strokes, but that would mess up the people who are already used to those keystrokes.

Joe Dunfee

Please forgive me if I am somehow not seeing it, but I cannot find the PgUp or PgDN in the keyboard remote window list.

Joe Dunfee

I have done more research, but I a still uncertain of certain things. My remote control also has buttons labeled [F5/Esc] and [Blackout]. When I open a word processor and press these buttons on my remote, the first button opens the Find and Replace, which means it is getting the F5 key. The one labeled [Blackout] creates a period.

I went to DMXControl to see if I could setup these buttons to work. I changed the F5 to "Scene list" and "Next". The "." was set to go back one scene.

I did leave the keyboard remote window open, but could not change scenes. The [Blackout] button had no effect, and the [F5/Esc] button would not do anything the first press, but on the 2nd press, the Keyboard Remote window would close!

Still puzzled.

Joe Dunfee
[Edit - I also tried to use the physical keyboard without results. Even the default keys don't work, such as the "G" to go to the next scene.]

Thank you for the Keyboard activation window hint. I was not using it. However, I still can't use the keyboard to advance scenes. Attached are screen shots of the pertinent windows. Note that I have tried every possible combination of the check marks in the Keyboard activation windows. I have also tried capital and lower-case G.

I don't recall reading this, but I believe you must press the green triangle button in the scene list before you can start to advance scenes using the "Go" button below it. I tried it without, just in case that was somehow necessary, but there was no difference in behavior using the keyboard.

Also, for future versions, I do recommend that your keyboard and MIDI settings window have a statement like, "Close this window and open the Keyboard Control Window to use keyboard."

As always, thank you very much for your help,

Joe Dunfee

On a lighting deck, the "Go" button is what tells the console to start the next cue that was stored in memory. I.e. "Go to the next cue".

Yes, it was the "Channel" setting that was missing. If I set my keyboard window to;

Control | Module |Device/Function | Channel | Flags | Value
Key 'G' | Disabled |Next | GO! |-,-,-,- | -

Argg.... it seems that the message board ignores multiple spaces, so I can't format the table above to line up.

Pressing "G" on my keyboard will cause the scene to jump to the next one. However, I am still puzzled about the settings. I would have thought the "next" and "GO!" meant the same thing. I have no idea what the flags or value fields are. I also cannot figure out what to set to make it go back one scene.

I was successful in getting the blackout key on my PowerPoint Remote [which generates a "."] to trigger the next scene.

Joe Dunfee