I think it would be great to have the possibility to have hot keys that would allow for a direct route to a partcular function. For example..while listening to the tuner, I want to switch to a favorite playlist on the player..i can program a macro that with a touch of a button would get me onto the player and into that playlist without having to scroll through the various menus.......

Mmm.. it is possible to hack a button macro together that does this using Hijack ir_translate. Flakey, but it works.

On the serial port, it used to be possible to enter a FID directly and have it play -- I wonder if that still works? If it does, then I could quickly extend Hijack's ir_translate to allow translations which issue bytes to the serial port, opening up all sorts of direct possibilities there..

-ml

mlord,

If you found the time to do that, I am one person whom would be greatly appreciative.

Since every button already does something, if you do this, you will give up another function in the process.

For example, if you choose one of the numbered buttons on the remote control for this purpose, you will no longer be able to perform alphanumeric searches.

Just wanted to make sure you realized this.

Long press of 4 and long press of Select Mode do not do anything by default.

How about a longpress of 1? Perhaps the real solution is a longpress of 1 (or some other key) followed by another IR code to actualy select what you want to do. I havn't really thought about this too much though.

What I think would be really cool would have having a gpsapp specific remote. Yes, you'd need to have two remotes, but having one approriately labeled that would bring gpsapp to the foregound with any button press would be convenient.

Matthew

long press of 9.
or has that been assigned something and i still dont realize it?

I hadn't thought about the long presses. You're right, you can ir-translate a long press of a remote button.

But for the Kenwood remote or the front panel, you'd be replacing an existing function.

I suppose one could also multiplex several such hardwired FIDs and other stuff, onto one or more Hijack PopUp's, which could then be assigned to any button one likes. The original button functionality could be one of the PopUp choices, so no loss.. just an extra click.

Cheers