Using FloPrompter with a Foot Pedal?
A customer called me up this afternoon on my new FloSpace telephone number. He had a couple of great ideas for new features, which I’ll share with y’all later. One feature he asked me about had to do with controlling FloPrompter by using a foot pedal. Apparently, he’s in a karaoke band that plays music live while you sing to it (how cool is that?!), so of course he needs to keep his hands free for playing.
Does anyone know about using a foot pedal with desktop software? I never knew it was possible, though it sounds pretty cool.
The recently released FloPrompter version 2.2 now supports wireless remote presenters which control a PC’s media keys (like play, pause/stop, volume up/down, next/previous) — even if the PC doesn’t have separate keys for these. So in theory, assuming a foot pedal can be set up to activate any of these media control keys or F keys, then it ought to work just fine with FloPrompter today. (Most teleprompter player control features have at least 3 sets of keyboard shortcuts for maximum usability.)
Anyway, if you have a foot pedal set up to control desktop software, please contact me and let’s test FloPrompter’s support for foot pedals. It sounds like a neat feature and it would be really cool to be able to say that we support them!
