iphone remote

[nqeron]

If anyone's interested, I've found a way to use iphone/itouch as a remote control for NeoImpress.
Does this pique anyone's interest?

[sardisson]

Sounds like something that would be useful to add to our Using a remote with Impress article in the wiki.

Smokey

[nqeron]

So for anyone who is interested, I used a program called telekenisis, made by Blacktree - within this I also downloaded an app called universalremote (or uniremote).

In order to get it to work with NeoOffice, I had to edit some of the code.

Within the uniremote folder there is an addon folder and a 'smart' folder. Both of these need to be modified.

within the smart folder, for the uniremote code (/scripts) (for all of the buttons) I modified the script to look like this:

tell application "System Events"
set frontApp to name of first application process where frontmost is true
if frontApp = "SOffice.bin" then
set frontApp to "NeoOffice"
end if
end tell
....

And within the addons, I added a folder called NeoRemote, and copied the button scripts and recoded them to look like this:

tell application "System Events"
key code 12
end tell

where the key code changes per script (12 using command down for menu, 123 for prev, 124 for next, 96 for play-pause, and I used 1 for plus, and 13 for minus). Note it should be "12 with command down" not 12 for menu, this will exit the presentation using cmd-Q.

This will set the prev button to go back, the next to go forward, the play-pause to start the presentation, the menu to exit, the plus to blank the screen, and the minus to unblank it. Other variants are possible.

I hope this helps

[yoxi]

In case this also helps, Telekinesis is spelled this way .

- padmavyuha (cursed with the proof-reader's curse...)

[sardisson]

[sardisson]

I've now posted these instructions in the wiki here; please let us know if there are any errors or things that should be clarified.

Thanks again for the instructions!

Smokey

[yoxi]