Sage holds too much focus

[sundansx]

I am having this problem:

When SageTV is sleeping, it still responds to all sendmessage commands from girder. this is a problem because when I am navigating in Winamp with girder, as sageTV is being navigated as well and even started playing a video while asleep without a display. I could hear the show's audio mixed in with my music. Quite a curious look on my face at that point, for sure. I do not have a 350 in my system, and I am guessing that is why this was done, or could be a bug altogether. I would like to see a way in the properties file, at least, to disable every message response except the wakeup. On another note, sage client does not seem to be acting the same.

Part of the problem is that sage does not act like a normal window. If I select "send to forground task" sage does not respond. I have to select "match invisible tasks" to get it to work. If I didnt have to use these options, I could probably get it to work.

Now, before you say "contact Frey", I already did and got this useless reply:
"Girder is not supported. Try using Sage without Girder and see if that fixes your problem. You can always check our forums for help with Girder issues."

Looks like we are on our own for this one.
Anyone? Anyone?
-thanks

[nielm]

Your problem is not with sage - it is with Girder, and it is a common issue with Girder, covered in their tutorial.

You need to get your girder setup in such a way so that it is able to determine which app is in focus and perform the commands as appropriate...

There are several ways to do this -- I personally use the TaskSwitch plugin triggering a multigroup which has several IsForeground comands, each og which trigger yet another mutligroup which disables all other groups and then enables the group for the app which has the focus...
Other mechanisms have a group where all RC commands each of which triggers a multigroup with several IsForeground commands, which in turn trigger the command required.

Otherwise you will end up sending all commands to all applications all of the time.. With just Sage and Winamp it is not too much of an issue, but I control Sage, MyHTPC, winamp. Opera, ThumbsPlus and Windows all from the remote with the correct command sent depending on which has the focus.

[stanger89]

I was going to try explaining how to do it but it was getting confusing, so I'll just attach a GML. The basic theory is that you want girder to check if the SageTV window exists "OnTaskSwitch" and enable/disable the group accordingly.

[sundansx]

Stanger, neilm,
thanks. that fixed it. took stanger's gml example and tweaked it to fit my application.