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Adobe sux, but it is the only PDF reader with decent full-screen support. I will keep poking, but additional hints always appreciated!

The menu trick kind of works; .I have to ‘double-click’ the menu button but that’s still quicker than holding the menu button. One more thing to report, if I click on the left and right buttons quickly, I can ‘escape’ beyond the application icons in the RC menu.

Well. It looks like you were doing everything right.
The magic is, that Remote Control tries to be smart

When you add or change a script, Remote Control tries to determine which application is scripted. It searches for “tell application ‘xyz’” in the script.
In this version the first one that is being found is used to determine the app name. With the app name Remote Control asks the OS if the application is installed. If the OS says no, Remote Control disables the “enable for remote control” switch.

So the problem is that Remote Control gets the wrong app name or the OS does not find the Acrobat Reader program.

I installed the acrobat reader and found a bug in Remote Control Adobe named the app “Adobe Reader 7.0.7″ and it’s the version number that is the problem here. By making a copy of the app and renaming the copy to “Adobe Reader” it worked. (Note: I had to start the “Adobe Reader” app in order to be recognized by RemoteControl).

So that shall be a interim-solution till the next version.

Thanks for the problem report!

Regarding the up/down arrow problem with Xee. That’s a problem of Xee. For whatever reason it does recognize the up/down arrow system events. I’ve tested that with Script Editor. The same up/down arrow code works for other apps (Safari, …).

Regarding the Menu Hold. You can already do what you want on a little bit different way.
Just add the following line to the menu button script.

set active application of remote manager to “”

This will deactivate the current app. When you check the preference “show application menu after a remote controllable application exists” than the app chooser will show up automatically. With this preference enable, a single Menu Hold (just for a second) will bring up the app chooser.

Confession: this Macbook is new and I am a longtime Unix and Linux user. I’m more used to a command line and vi than GUI stuff, so when I have to guess I usually guess wrong

On another note, I can’t get RC’s menu by simpling holding down menu. I have to hold it down, let go and then click menu to bring it up. Can you give us the option to have menu always bring up the RC menu in the next version? ie. disable custom mapping of menu button

The sampling is much more sane though with that option turned off:
300 Thread0f07
300 start
300 _start
300 NSApplicationMain
300 -[NSApplication run]
300 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
300 _DPSNextEvent
300 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode
300 ReceiveNextEventCommon
300 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode
300 CFRunLoopRunInMode
300 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
300 machmsgtrap
300 machmsgtrap
300 Thread1003
300 pthreadbody
300 forkThreadForFunction
300 +[NSURLConnection(NSURLConnectionInternal) resourceLoadLoop:]
300 CFRunLoopRunInMode
300 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
300 machmsgtrap
300 machmsgtrap
300 Thread1103
300 pthreadbody
300 forkThreadForFunction
300 +[NSURLCache diskCacheSyncLoop:]
300 CFRunLoopRunInMode
300 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
300 machmsgtrap
300 machmsg_trap

Unfortunatly I was unable to reproduce bug until now. I played a little with the Xee application and everything was fine with the following script. Perhaps you’ll give that a try, too. This one makes sure that the Xee application is the front most application when a button is pressed, too.

– Xee Script
global pageDownCode
global pageUpCode
global plusCode
global minusCode
set pageDownCode to 121
set pageUpCode to 116
set plusCode to 69
set minusCode to 78

on rcPlus()
tell application “Xee”
activate
end tell
tell application “System Events”
set procPreview to first process where name is “Xee”
if not procPreview is null then tell procPreview to key code pageUpCode
end tell
end rcPlus

on rcMinus()
tell application “Xee”
activate
end tell
tell application “System Events”
set procPreview to first process where name is “Xee”
if not procPreview is null then tell procPreview to key code pageDownCode
end tell
end rcMinus

on rcPlay()
tell application “Xee”
activate
end tell
tell application “System Events”
set procPreview to first process where name is “Xee”
if not procPreview is null then
tell procPreview to key code plusCode using {command down}
(* for the next line UI Scripting must be enabled in order to work *)
tell procPreview to click menu item “Zoom” of menu 1 of menu bar item “Window” of menu bar 1
end
end tell
end rcPlay

on rcMenu()
tell application “Xee”
activate
end tell
tell application “System Events”
set procPreview to first process where name is “Xee”
if not procPreview is null then tell procPreview to key code minusCode using {command down}
end tell
end rcMenu

on rcActivate()
–
— code that will be executed if the application is activated
–
tell application “Xee”
activate
end tell
end rcActivate