Grooveshark + Chrome + Mac = fail

[ghost]

I cannot get the keyboard shortcuts to work in my environment. I'm on Chrome for Mac v5.0.342.7 beta, and OS X 10.6.2. I've tried changing the keyboard commands to a few different combinations, and tried using them with Chrome focused from several different tabs (none of which had flash on them). I've tried restarting chrome several times. Just doesn't seem to work. Any thoughts?

[intarstudents]

Well, it's hard for me to debug it, because I don't have a OS X. But I could build better debuging and then you could test it out and give log files :)

[ghost]

Sure - let me know how I can help and I'll do what I can.

[intarstudents]

Tested on Linux Google Chrome 5.0.366.2 dev everything working fine. Do you tested with default shortcuts or tried build custom ones in Options?

[ghost]

Custom ones

[jonchui]

I can't get it to work using the standard ones.

How do you try custom keys? When I double click the keyboard shortcuts, nothing happens. I also can't edit them manually.

[intarstudents]

I'm testing this on Mac OS X 10.6.6, Google Chrome 8.0.522 and keySharky 1.5.2

• Goto chrome://extensions
• Find keySharky item and click on Options
• When "keySharky Options" tab pops up, click on Play/Pause input box once.
• Now press your keyboard shortcut (example CTRL + SHIFT + L works fine)
• You should see it changed and already saved. Now open Grooveshark (listen.grooveshark.com) open some song and hit play button. Now when you will press CTRL + SHIFT + L it should pause song.

If nothing works its good to restart Chrome and try again. But for me it works, but well Chromes keyboard support still sucks so waiting for better times :)

[jonchui]

@intarstudents - I just verified that your instructions work! Thanks so much!

Turns out the problem was the mac's "command" key (or keySharky calls it meta). Whenever I try to use it in a combination, it doesn't seem to work.

On a side note, is it possible to have a chrome extension bind to shortcuts when other applications are open? Or even better, to bind to the Mac's play/pause buttons on the keyboard?

[intarstudents]

Ahhh, yeah it seems like META key doesn't bind nicely in Chrome on Mac OS X, but it worked in Windows.

"On a side note, is it possible to have a chrome extension bind to shortcuts when other applications are open? Or even better, to bind to the Mac's play/pause buttons on the keyboard?"

Well, this is kinda harder and not implemented (yet?), but there could be way to use WebSockets and then connect keySharky to server that would run on Mac OS X who could grab binded keyboard presses from Mac OS X environment and then transfer them to keySharky throw WebSockets inside Chrome. It's just idea and it could work, but as I'm mostly Firefox user, I already have something similar https://github.com/intarstudents/keySharky/wiki/api-server