[slinkelist] New Microsoft Natural Pro Keyboard

Don Messerli donm@citrix.com
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:32:11 -0400


The new Microsoft Natural Pro Keyboard has dedicated buttons for Mute,
Volume +, Volume -, Play/Pause, Stop, Prev Track and Next Track.  It would
be cool if CDJ supported them.

Here are the messages sent to WinAmp (one of the supported players).

Mute		Message 0x0088	wParam 00000004	lParam 00000000
Volume +	Not sent to app.
Volume -	Not sent to app.
Play/Pause	Message 0x0319	wParam	 00000000	lParam	000E0000
Stop		Message 0x0319	wParam	 00000000	lParam	000D0000
Prev Track	Message 0x0319	wParam 00000000	lParam	000C0000
Next Track	Message 0x0319	wParam 00000000	lParam	000B0000

Of course, the Intellitype Pro software only supports certain applications.
It probably searches for the main window by Class and sends the messages to
it.  I can't find anything in the registry that can be changed.  One may be
able to find the window class names in the executable and patch one of them.

Don