Keyspan Front Row Control Remote "space bar" vs. "enter"

[scjh]

Hi,

I'm new to Boxee. I am running it on a MacPro for now, and looking forward to running it on the AppleTV. The MacPro does not have a built in receiver for the Apple Remote, so I use the Keyspan Front Row Control Remote (which is a very nice replacement for the Apple Remote). I am used to pressing the Pause/Play button to "Select" or "Drill Down" during menu navigation (equivalent to keyboard enter key), but that doesn't seem to work in Boxee. At first I thought the button was somehow ignored, but during playback of a video, pressing the button will toggle pause/play correctly (equivalent to keyboard spacebar).

I searched the forum, and came across a post in the AppleTV section that may be related.

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=2531&highlight=remote

Upon further tests, looks like the Keyspan remote is sending a "space bar" for the play/pause button instead of "enter". Front Row treats "space bar" and "enter" the same, so the Keyspan remote works as expected there.

Is it possible for Boxee to treat "space bar" the same as "enter" (at least as an option)? I can see this as a potential issue for text entry using the keyboard to type the space bar. But pressing the play/pause button to "select" is still needed if I'm using the remote with the onscreen keyboard. This will solve the problem for this remote. I know this will also disable the ability to quickly pause/play a video, but pressing the "enter" key will bring up the transport control with the pause/play icon highlighted, so I can still pause/play.


Thanks very much!

[philbar]

I'm having the same issue. All the buttons work out of the box expect Menu and Pause/Play

Upon further investigation, the Menu button sends the following key strokes: "OPT+ESC".

I was able to use DoubleCommand (http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/) to disable the option/command keys which makes the menu button essentially send "ESC" to Boxee, and correctly pulls up the Boxee Global Menu.

I tried using Ukelele (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Ukelele) to make the spacebar send the enter keystroke. The button works like a enter key for programs like Safari, but not for Boxee.

Any suggestions?

[philbar]

I was able to use Boxee's Keymap.xml file to map "space" to "select".

Change the following:


<space>Pause</space>

to


<space>Select</space>