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CM Storm Devastator Backlight on Mac OS X

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I have a CM Storm Devastator and cannot get the backlight working on Mac. I have followed the instructions below : > 1. Go here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/HID_LED_test_tool/Introduction/Intro.html > 2. Click the little "Download sample code" button > 3. Open the downloaded folder and go to Build / Release > 4. Drag the HID LED test tool file to your Applications folder > 5. Launch the OS X "Automator" program > 6. Choose "Service" document type > 7. Under "Library", click "Utilities", and drag "Run Shell Script" to the blank area / workflow pane. > 8. For "selected service receives" choose "no input" in "any application" (important) > 9. For "pass input" choose "as arguments" (important) > 10. For "shell" choose "/bin/bash" > 11. Paste in this script: > /Applications/HID\ LED\ test\ tool & pid=$! sleep 3 kill $pid > 12. Click "run" to test. After 3 seconds, your keyboard should remain in a state with num lock and scroll lock enabled, and all the keys should be lit up. Yay! Continue to assign keyboard shortcut to do this. > 13. Click "File" > "Save", "Save service as" : "Devastator LED Lighter" > 14. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > General > "Devastator LED Lighter" > 15. Assign a shortcut. Scroll lock and F keys didn't work for me. I ended up choosing " The problems I have encountered: 1. The downloaded file is called "HID_LED_test_tool". This contains 3 files - HID LED test tool-Read Me.txt - HID LED test tool.xcodeproj - main.c Problem: it does not contain a build/release folder, so I dragged HID LED test tool.xcodeproj into the Applications folder. 2. I followed all the instructions above renaming the HID LED... file to a simple HID. The problem is that when I run the automator program as indicated above I get the reply xxxxx is a directory. I cannot get around this; I have tried extracting the file within the HID LED test tool folder and then executing the automator with that file name but the exact same thing happens .... 3. When I attempt to open the project.pbxproj file in Terminal I get the response : Last login: Sat Feb 7 19:34:21 on ttys000 /Applications/HID\ LED\ test\ tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj ; exit; Zakias-MacBook-Pro:~ zakia$ /Applications/HID\ LED\ test\ tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj ; exit; /Applications/HID LED test tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: line 1: //: is a directory /Applications/HID LED test tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: line 3: archiveVersion: command not found /Applications/HID LED test tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: line 4: classes: command not found /Applications/HID LED test tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: line 6: objectVersion: command not found /Applications/HID LED test tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: line 7: objects: command not found /Applications/HID LED test tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: line 9: /Applications: is a directory /Applications/HID LED test tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /Applications/HID LED test tool.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: line 10: ` 8DD76F770486A8DE00D96B5E /* main.c in Sources */ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = 08FB7796FE84155DC02AAC07 /* main.c */; settings = {ATTRIBUTES = (); }; };' logout [Process completed]
Asked by Hassan Kajee (11 rep)
Feb 7, 2015, 06:02 PM
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