A really cool application for meida buttons!

Well its just a thought for now.

I’m thinking maybe dell can create application that does this on XPS/etc machines:

When you bring the mouse curser at really bottom of screen, media player key on keyboard lights up and basically when the curser is at the real button of screen and aligned with the play or another media button that certain button lights up and if there is a click the software act as if the button was pressed.

It will be really cool, does anybody understand me?

 

I do understand your idea, and I think it's brilliant!
Simple, elegant and it improves usability a lot.
Great idea, I hope someone from Dell is listening...

 

The mouse would have to be able to go below the taskbar I guess, not sure if it could work, but the concept definitely is cool

 

it dsnt have to go below task bar.
any professional programmers here?

 

The problem is I don't think the button's LEDs are controlled in anyway by software in the computer. I think it is merely a circuit that senses the touch on the button and causes a preprogrammed LED to respond to this. Also explains why the buttons always light up even in unsupported OSes like OS X.

Basically looks like a fundamental hardware limitation which will stop this porject I'm afraid. Tis a shame.

 

No, they're controlled. They have a light up sequence when the computer powers on, and the eject button will continue to flash while it ejects a disc.

 

Yes but I did some tests. If you eject by right clicking in My Computer it doesn't light up. Those two are easily explained. The power button is on the same board so a power ons elf test of the LEDs is probably triggered by pressing power. As for the eject, that will simply be linked to the LED you would get on a normal disc drive which lights up when ejecting, the computer doesn't control that.