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rsjaffe / MIDI2LR

An application and plugin to remotely control Lightroom with a MIDI controller
http://rsjaffe.github.io/MIDI2LR/
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Request for help: sending keystrokes to Lightroom #48

Closed rsjaffe closed 8 years ago

rsjaffe commented 9 years ago

If anyone can contribute code for sending keystrokes to LR, I'd appreciate it. Particularly if it is compatible with both OSX and Windows. Code should either be in C++ or Lua, though if it is in Lua, it'll have to follow the rules LR imposes on Lua programs (limited access to some system resources).

thanks

Rory

stevejmu commented 8 years ago

Unfortunately I don't know enough C++ or LUA to help out with this, but maybe the VSCO Keys plugin can be a good springboard to incorporate keystrokes for MIDI2LR.

https://github.com/vsco/keys

Jewest commented 8 years ago

Please explain what is the goal of the feature request. What do you want to achieve? Maybe there is another way to solve the problem.

otherwise: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646310(v=vs.85).aspx is an option.

rsjaffe commented 8 years ago

The Lightroom SDK interface doesn't provide complete control of Lightroom.

Sending keystrokes would complement the SDK to provide complete control.

So we're looking at stuffing keystrokes into the LR application, either from the MIDI2LR app (which is a separate app from LR) or from the Lua plugin (which runs as part of LR).

seweil commented 8 years ago

If you are still looking...

It's unlikely that there is a portable way to do this in C++ (I don't know anything about LUA)

I could probably put something together for Windows. Mac would require more research.

StevenKersting commented 8 years ago

http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/ ???

Jewest commented 8 years ago

The first test edition is added to the pull request of the develop tree. Looking for feedback if it works for other users. Op 6 feb. 2016 17:29 schreef "StevenKersting" notifications@github.com:

http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/ ???

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