Software that will interact with games and perform functions

Basically,
If I get shot in on a game, I would like my keyboard to flash. Is there anyway to get a program to like add a registory or edit a registry file when this happens, and then change it back?

Get what I mean?

 

Yeah, pulsating lights? I think findvika is working on putting that feature in his lite version of the Alienware Command Center sometime in the future. For now, I don't think there is any way you can do that.

 

I don't think this is possible due to the slow response time of the leds under the keyboard correct me if I'm wrong.

 

We discussed possibilities in another thread. Not sure if anyone's still interested in working on them though.

 

I am using Command Center's components to change the colors of LED as I did not want to mess up with LEDs directly by sending direct hardware signals. LED may support faster switching but I am not confident about it yet.

Regarding changing the colors on the basis of events happening in game or other program is possible if only game/program also provide support for listening to those events.

Only way I could think of is having a virtual force feedback driver, most of the modern games support force feedback controllers and somehow they send signals to those devices to vibrate on certain actions. This could be a real challenge and I have no major experience in game development (especially force feedback) so it will be quite time consuming just to figure out.

 

I'm sure we will all donate to help you out with your time!

There must be ways of measuing health and such as well? How does the G(insert number here) keyboard with the display, display stats from a game? Maybe you could base it off something like that...

 

the G15? it has a Gamepanel(tm). it's on the dell m1730 too i believe. it's a logitech-proprietary development. i guess you could find out how it communicates with the games by asking logitech?

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/68/554&cl=us,en

 

Ok.. I did some basic research how it works.. Disclaimer: Its my theory without any proof of accuracy.

Gamepanel(tm) is a proprietary development with certain protocol (documented) which can be implemented by anyone to control what should be displayed on the screen and how it should be displayed.

So in this scenario, the games and applications listed here implement this protocol. Again the communication is initiated by games and applications, Gamepanel just react to them.

Our scenario is different, we have a very small application which try to control the colors and we cannot approach game developers to design their game and implement our protocol just to control the AlienFX.

I will have to come up with some other solution. Hmmm... it will take time considering my work is killing me.... when is the weekend ???

 

I had a Dell XPS M1730 last year for review and it had a keyboard that could pulse, flash, etc. However, it didn't change colors. Dell included a tool that let the keyboard and lighting system react to music like a visualizer, pulse like a heartbeat, and some other settings.

I'd be interested in seeing development of a custom tool for Alienware systems.

 

I have already negotiated to get the source of XPS_LEDs plugin for winamp from the original developer (thanks Scot, if you read this)

I have so much to work on and so less time... plus the hardware has its own limitations... it does not react fast enough to act as visualizer. If you push data soooo fast it just hang the AlienFX and stops reacting to any commands till you reboot

 

Surely with a new flash maybe you could modify it so that it could be like the dell's? Maybe overclock it somehow

I dunno the logic but maybe it will work? Surely vikkie can find out a way <3