Support for keyboard media keys

[G-Rath]

I've not seen any mention of this, but I think it would be a great feature - It's become a bit of a standard for most keyboards to have keys for play/pause, next, back, and mute (in that order really - play/pause being more common than next and back).

This make it very simple to manage the music playing, because games don't (I'm not even sure they can) use this key, in part because it would be making use of a feature not all keyboards have.

Is there anything planned for this feature as a possibility?

[Staryn]

That's a good idea. I use the media keys on my computer when I have itunes running, be nice to be able to do that with Steam, too.

Of course, when I use Big Pic, it's usually when I'm playing with a gamepad, but not everyone does that.

[G-Rath]

Ya thats true - but it would be good for when it comes out for Desktop as well

[ReBoot]

Yup, would be nice. Beware though: Steam shall never ever swallow those events. When one plays music using another player, that still should remain controllable.

[OCD]

+1, don't forget about us Mouse and Keyboard users

[notto]

+1

[CK]

media keys seem to work when you are on the desktop but not when in game, even if you have the overlay open, this would be a really nice feature.

[Francies]

i don't know why steam don't want to fix that but i found SteamKeyJ try it it's free
http://www.keyboardp.me/post/108353797846/steamkeyj-to-control-steam-music-player-with-your

[Tenacious Impy]

Originally posted by Potter:

i don't know why steam don't want to fix that but i found SteamKeyJ try it it's free
http://www.keyboardp.me/post/108353797846/steamkeyj-to-control-steam-music-player-with-your

Thanks Potter, glad you like it :) I created SteamKeyJ so if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

[Falk The Wolf]

Originally posted by keyboardP:

Originally posted by Potter:

i don't know why steam don't want to fix that but i found SteamKeyJ try it it's free
http://www.keyboardp.me/post/108353797846/steamkeyj-to-control-steam-music-player-with-your

Thanks Potter, glad you like it :) I created SteamKeyJ so if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

Is there a way to add a silent start mode into system tray? cause i added it to autostart so it launches everytime itself at pc start up but with the window in mid screen at the moment.
and thx for the prog it works great. finaly I can play nonsteam games without tabing out.

[Tenacious Impy]

Originally posted by Falk The Wolf:

Originally posted by keyboardP:

Thanks Potter, glad you like it :) I created SteamKeyJ so if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

Is there a way to add a silent start mode into system tray? cause i added it to autostart so it launches everytime itself at pc start up but with the window in mid screen at the moment.
and thx for the prog it works great. finaly I can play nonsteam games without tabing out.

I've updated the code to support this so that if you launch the app with the command line argument "-hidden", it will launch minized. Unfortunately I can't create a runnable file at the moment (don't have access to a dev machine) but if you're familiar with compiling code, you can build this version ( https://github.com/keyboardP/SteamKeyJ ).

If not, I'll compile it when I get access to a dev machine and upload the new version of the app with the "-hidden" feature :)

[Tenacious Impy]

Originally posted by Falk The Wolf:

Originally posted by keyboardP:

Thanks Potter, glad you like it :) I created SteamKeyJ so if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

Is there a way to add a silent start mode into system tray? cause i added it to autostart so it launches everytime itself at pc start up but with the window in mid screen at the moment.
and thx for the prog it works great. finaly I can play nonsteam games without tabing out.

I've managed to compile the code, here's the binary ( http://1drv.ms/1BbZXqA ). Create a shortcut to SteamKeyJ and pass in the '-hidden' argument. This should open it minimised and set that shortcut to autostart.

Let me know if you have any questions but hope that helps.

[Falk The Wolf]

Originally posted by keyboardP:

Originally posted by Falk The Wolf:

Is there a way to add a silent start mode into system tray? cause i added it to autostart so it launches everytime itself at pc start up but with the window in mid screen at the moment.
and thx for the prog it works great. finaly I can play nonsteam games without tabing out.

I've managed to compile the code, here's the binary ( http://1drv.ms/1QOHYIDv ). Create a shortcut to SteamKeyJ and pass in the '-hidden' argument. This should open it minimised and set that shortcut to autostart.

Let me know if you have any questions but hope that helps.

thx for the update. sry i´m not into compiling code.
anyway thx for the link for the binary, but link doesn´t work 404. seems like something went wrong here.
but thx again at all for adding this and for the prog....so much comfort while playing xD

[Tenacious Impy]

Originally posted by Falk The Wolf:

Originally posted by keyboardP:

I've managed to compile the code, here's the binary ( http://1drv.ms/1QOHYIDv ). Create a shortcut to SteamKeyJ and pass in the '-hidden' argument. This should open it minimised and set that shortcut to autostart.

Let me know if you have any questions but hope that helps.

thx for the update. sry i´m not into compiling code.
anyway thx for the link for the binary, but link doesn´t work 404. seems like something went wrong here.
but thx again at all for adding this and for the prog....so much comfort while playing xD

Sorry about that, not sure why the OneDrive link isn't working, maybe I formatted it wrong. second time lucky[1drv.ms] :)

You're welcome, glad it's useful! I'm hoping Steam build it in one day.