MCE Keyboard "track point" conflicting with mptray (1 Viewer)

[bigbud]

Hi all!
I pretty much like the functionality the mptray.exe gives to the "Green Button" and it works superbly well with the MCE remote. Recently I bought the MCE remote keyboard as well and I encountered a strange misbehaviour regarding the keyboard's physical "track point" when the mptray.exe is registered. After moving the trackpoint for a short time, MediaPortal starts up, the same way as if you press the "Green Button". This behaviour is reproducible every time and it really starts to get me annoyed.
When I unregister mptray.exe and reboot, the trackpoint works fine and no unwanted MP startups occur any longer. So it must be directly affiliated with mptray.exe. Although I do not quite understand it because when moving a "normal" wired mouse, MP does not start up either.
This gets me to the conclusion that the track point is not handled as a regular pointer device, but as some sort of keyboard extension ("additional button") and therefore seems to conflict with the mptray.exe.
But again, this is all hypothetical brainstorm. As of now, I can decide between normal usage of the MCE keyboard or usage the "Green Button". As I do not want to do without either one, any help would be kindly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!
Cheerio,
bigbud

 

[Smirnuff]

Hi bigbud and welcome -

I'll look into this but can say that so far I haven't seen this behaviour. However I have accidentally hit the green button on the keyboard a few times while trying (in vain) to get used the pointing device.

Would be interested to hear if anyone else has experienced a similar problem to bigbud's.

*** edit ***

I've managed to do it two times in a row now so will look at fixing this, it kinda helps if you don't have MP running when you try to do this.

Cheers,
Smirnuff.

 

[bombonator]

i get exactly the same thing happening with my MCE keyboard and mptray.

I at first i thought it was my wrist bumping the green button on the keyboard but also when mptray is not running the mouse pointer actually works much better for me - smoother...

Happy to test anything to help get it solved...

 

[jeffp]

Was anything found out about this? I just purchased an MCE keyboard and I have the same issue.

 

[cheezey]

Was anything found out about this? I just purchased an MCE keyboard and I have the same issue.

Same here!

 

[Smirnuff]

Haven't had time to solve this yet sorry guys? Lol your nipples must be far more sensitive than mine, I have to really push hard to get the app to launch?

 

[jeffp]

well sensitive nipples certainly have their place just not here, LOL!

It's not annoying to the point where I don't want to use the keybaord but it can be a pain when you are trying to change settings or something. I'll keep my eye's open for a fix.

Thanks!

 

[Smirnuff]

The problem should be fixed now, download the updated application here.

 

[cheezey]

Yes, looks good to me, now the mouse is much more useable.

One thing though, I used to use the green button used to launch MP if it wasn't running but I can't do this now, was that because I was running mphook.exe?

 

[Smirnuff]

Cheezey you should still be able to launch with the green button, if not then perhaps I've uploaded the wrong build... if so then I'll correct the problem tomorrow.