How can i use device hardware buttons(Play/Pause) in the app?

Question

Hi,

am developing a Windows 8.1 store app.

In my app am playing some music. Whenever user taps Play/Pause button in the app am able to play/pause it.

But in the PC when i hit the Play/Pause button it should perform the appropriate tasks. How  can i handle that?

Anybody please help me??

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm not sure about this, but you may be able to handle the VirtualKey to see what is being sent when those keys are pressed, and perform the appropriate action.

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Answer 2

They will come in as normal key strokes. They aren't in the VirtualKey enumeration but you can look up their numeric ivalues in the desktop Virtual-Key Codes documentation: VK_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE is 0xB3

Also look at the media transport controls for background media. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/dn263187.aspx