.lircrc question/suggestion

[Andreas A. (Acki) <asa...@st...>]

Hi,

I'd like to control xmms in much the same way as I do my CD-player of my
stereo:

 o Pressing the skip button once (i.e. for a short period of time, so that
  just one pulse is being send) should play the next track
o Holding it down a little longer should skip in the track currently being
  played

I >believe< this is not possible with the current options for
configuration.

Naively, I'd do it like this:

begin
 remote = pioneer.lirc
 prog = xmms
 button = cd_next
 repeat = 5
 config = FWD 20
 flags  = quit
end


begin
 remote = pioneer.lirc
 prog = xmms
 button = cd_next
 repeat = 1
 config = NEXT
end

However the second entry always is true. For some applications this
behaviour might make sense (i.e. uniformly doing a certain action at every
peak, and addtionally doing another action every nth peak).

It would be nice to be able to assign differnent actions to a button
depending on the actual length of the sequence it produces, i.e. in the
above example the second entry doing a 'look-ahead' whether the entire
sequence is longer than 7 or not.

Does anyone else think this to be useful or did I overlook anything and
this could be done even with the means available now?

Bye,

-Andreas
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