When live toolbar loses focus, clickers stop working

Nicthevic

Our worship leaders find it easier to use a clicker or foot pedal to change slides, rather than the web remote. This works fine, unless the live window loses focus. So if anyone clicks elsewhere, or after a video is played, they can no longer advance slides until someone clicks the focus back to the live toolbar.
Running 3.02 & 3.11 on Windows 11.
The clicker/foot pedal are sending PAGEUP and PAGEDOWN, so I've configured custom shortcuts to make use of this (see screenshot)

Is there anything that can be done about this? Can these keystrokes be made to register even when the focus is elsewhere?

witterholt

Have you already tried the enable big display buttons setting in Web Remote?

Nicthevic

Yes I have - and I find them very helpful. But not when I'm playing guitar! Then I prefer a foot pedal

witterholt

Nicthevic ok, I don't think it is possible to use a shortcut key in OpenLP when it has no focus. But maybe you can use Autohotkey with the function ControlSend to make this work.

Nicthevic

oh - that would be a challenge for me! I might have a go, and post my results if successful. Thanks!

witterholt

Nicthevic Yes, I used this tool a long time ago and it is very powerful. It is one of these open source gems. A bit low level, but well documented. Good luck.