Keyboard control of media previewer

windinthew · Post by **windinthew** » 2005 May 25, 20:52

Is there any way the inbuilt media previewer can be controlled with the keyboard (well at least started , as it can be stopped by moving to another media file) . I know there is an option to start the file when selected but this tends to cause a hang if you are just scrolling down and stop for a millisecond too long to look at the file name etc. Is this previewer a self contained exe that exists somewhere in the file structure? Thanks

Post by **nikos** » 2005 May 26, 08:21

this is just windows media player
sadly it doesn't seem to get the focus when clicked so its shortcuts like ctrl+P don't work

ps i just discovered that you can focus on the quickviewer if you switch to it using the x2 shortcut <ctrl+shift+tab>
then ctrl+P etc will work in the player
not sure if it's very convenient though!

windinthew · Post by **windinthew** » 2005 May 26, 12:23

nikos wrote: i just discovered that you can focus on the quickviewer if you switch to it using the x2 shortcut <ctrl+shift+tab>
then ctrl+P etc will work in the player
not sure if it's very convenient though!

Hi Nikos .. Your suggestion does not seem to work for me, CTRL + P copies the column headers to the clipboard whether I preface with CTRL+ SHIFT+ TAB or not. Do I have to change the meaning of CTRL+P somwhere. It is probably better than trying to get the mouse on the very small play button

Post by **nikos** » 2005 May 26, 12:40

ctrl+shift+tab switches the focus to the quickview, check it with a text document

once you are in there the main app's shortcuts are disabled
for me it works (windows 2000 / WMP7)