Ctrl and Alt ignored from remote

[ElihuRozen]

I have used IRSS for many years to control NextPVR.  I configure it to allow me to send key codes even if NextPVR doesn't have focus.  The IRSS tool for sending keystrokes is Translator.  If NPVR v4, I used Windows messages by sending to Class WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.141b42a_r11_ad1.  I would send message 32775 and the keystroke.  When I upgraded to NPVR v5, that did not work.  The Class had changed to WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.141b42a_r12_ad1, but Translator gets a permissions error.  If I run it as Administrator, I do not get the error, but the message is ignored.  I figure the message ID has changed, but I don't know how to figure out what it should be.  So, I wrote an AutoIT3 script to send keystrokes to that class & configured Translator to use that.  When I first upgraded to v5, I noticed that Ctrl and Alt were ignored.  Basically, if I hit Skip, that sends Ctrl + {RIGHT}, but NPVR treats it as though I had sent just {RIGHT}.  I played around and determined that if NPVR did not have focus, it would handle the key strokes correctly.  So, I would start NPVR, click on something running on the other monitor and everything would work.  For the last couple of releases, that work around no longer works.  If I test my script with Notepad, it does respond to the Ctrl keys, so I know it is still sending it correctly. 

I restarted the NPVR service, used the remote to start NPVR, went into TV Guide, hit Skip twice and captured the logs.

This is using the client on the server, which I usually don't use.  Most of the time I use the client listed below on a different TV.

[sub]

There was an old method for sending keystrokes to NextPVR v4, for historic MVP support, which was done using windows message 0x8007 (32775). There hasn't been equivalent in NextPVR v5. I've added the few lines of code for that back in for the next release.

In reality, you'd be better off just sending regular key strokes if IRSS will let you do that. NextPVR isn't doing anything special for keyboard handling (including ctrl/alt/shift keys). It's just receiving keypresses the normal way (WM_KEYDOWN). Maybe IRSS will let you fake WM_KEYDOWN messages.

[ElihuRozen]

I saw you had posted a NextPVR.exe and NextPVRUI.dll to fix some other issue. I downloaded them, replaced the appropriate ones in my directory, reconfigured Translator (IRSS) to use Windows Messages and now all the keys on my remote are working.

Thanks.

[sub]

Great.