Hotkey for Next Song in iTunes

[Traddles]

I want to be able to call a method that will send a message to itunes (minimized to tray) to move to the next song.... is there a way to send a message to an external app and also, does anybody know much about the internal guts of itunes for what that message might be?

I know this is a long shot but I would rather not have to restore the window, mousemove, etc... because a lot of times I'm doing things in the foreground and just want the playlist to move on in the background.

does anybody know if this is possible with AutoIt?

[BrettF]

Do a search for I tunes in the forum (Like this thread), and look at Hotkeyset() in the helpfile. That should get you started...

[Traddles]

well, I've done a lot of stuff with hotkeys so I'm pretty comfortable with that. it's mostly the "sendMessage" thing, you know?

[Shevilie]

A wild guess... Itunes might have this already I know winamp have global hotkeys and my guess is that Itunes have it to

[Traddles]

A wild guess... Itunes might have this already I know winamp have global hotkeys and my guess is that Itunes have it to

heh, already checked into it. Only the MAC version has global hotkeys. Windows version has hotkeys but only if the window is open and active. Also, is there an "AutoIt" for MAC, and would some scripts be cross-platform capable?

obviously the answer is no if I've compiled my script into a .exe but what about the script itself?

[Shevilie]

Well show the script

[Traddles]

Well show the script

ok, I actually use one script to do a lot on my computer. it looks like this (greatly truncated)

HotKeySet("^r", "commandLine")

while (true)

sleep(100)

wend

func commandLine()

$x = inputBox("command", ">")

call($x)

endfunc

func iTunesNextSong()

; what the crap do I do here to make itunes move to the next song

endfunc

having a script like this is actually really nice, I just leave it running all the time and a whole crap load of functions that do nice little things for me as well as a couple other hotkeys for really common things like opening an internet browser, etc...

[Shevilie]

Well its the MAC script i want to look at

[Traddles]

oh, haha, well no, actually if you look closely I was asking as a side note "oh, and is there a mac version of autoit..."

[Shevilie]

http://mike.steinbaugh.com/2004/10/09/09.55.01/

I think the mac have some build-in auto function...

[Traddles]

yes, I knew that you could write applescripts to do what I want but I was trying to use autoIt to emulate that same functionality for the windows version of iTunes. Incidentally I found what I was looking for here:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...9&hl=itunes

thanks for your help.

[Shevilie]

Np