Landscape View without opening keyboard

[Thespus2002]

Is there any way to switch my Wizard to landscape mode withouth having to open the keyboard?

Thanks,

[cold-chilli]

Is there any way to switch my Wizard to landscape mode withouth having to open the keyboard?

Thanks,


You could re-map one of your buttons.

To do this try Start - Settings - Personal - Buttons

Choose which button you don't mind changing then from the drop down list at the bottom select rotate screen (7th from the top)

Hope this helps

[arvind09]

Could some one please advice me how i can map the ;Lefthanded mode; screen to the hardware buttons cause by default it goes on the right handed mode. :(

[arvind09]

Could some one please advice me how i can map the ;Lefthanded mode; screen to the hardware buttons cause by default it goes on the right handed mode. :(

[ZeBoxx]

The default orientation-change can be set in...
Start > Settings > |System| > Screen*
(o) Landscape (left-handed)

Then if you open/close the keyboard or use a button mapped to the <rotate screen> option (not an external application*), it should switch between the orientation set there and Portrait mode.

* for external applications, just be sure you downloaded the right one. Some turn by 90 degrees, others by 270 degrees.

[arvind09]

Thanks ZeBoxx

I have Vito Button mapper and when i press the hard key assigned to screen rotate,it goes to the right haqnded mode.Any suggestions??

[ZeBoxx]

I guess it might be using its own built-in rotation utility, which rotates it the wrong way around? Download one of the screen rotation utilities, I think you need the 270-degrees one

[smccaldin]

Is there a way to get the screen to rotate without assigning it to a button... ideally I'd like something in the start menu that rotates the screen - if anyone has any ideas if such a program/function exists!

[tweakradje]

Thanks ZeBoxx

I have Vito Button mapper and when i press the hard key assigned to screen rotate,it goes to the right haqnded mode.Any suggestions??

Try this:

[HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation]
"LandScapeFixed"=dword:00000001
"LandScapeMode"=dword:00000004 or 1

Now press that button :D

"LandScapeMode"=dword:00000004 = Left Handed
"LandScapeMode"=dword:00000001 = Right Handed

Cheers

[arvind09]

thanks Tweaksradje that fixed my problem now it turns o the left handed mode without a hitch. :) Also thanks to Zeboxx :)

[ZeBoxx]

Try this:
[HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation]
"LandScapeMode"=dword:00000004 = Left Handed
"LandScapeMode"=dword:00000001 = Right Handed

Funny how that's exactly what Start > Settings > |System| > Screen, etc. changes.


[HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation]
"LandScapeFixed"=dword:00000001

What exactly does that one do, though?
The few references found have no clear description, and one page even says it supposedly doesn't work in WM5 -_-
Ah, it seems to remove the left-handed/right-handed option in Start > Settings > |System| > Screen, and replaces it with just Portrait and Landscape.
/me sets it back to 0 real quicklike ;)

[msk]

so will the reg hack [HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation] always keep the screen rotated without using a button?

[ZeBoxx]

no.. applications can still change the screen orientation to Landscape/Portrait and back. In addition, the Wizard specifically has a keyboard driver which always puts the orientation into left-handed landscape when slid out, and back to portrait hen slid back in. So you won't be able to always keep it in a single orientation with this hack. A TSR program monitoring the orientation would have to be written which changes it back - or intercepts and nulls all orientation calls.

[drkhalaf]

Quick question

I have occasionally noticed that when i have picked up my wizard and about to start using it , that the screen is in landscape mode when it should be in portrait mode. (with the default being portrait and the keyboard not slid out)

The wizard then very quickly reverts to portrait mode without me doing anything.

Is this a bug in the software??
Is there anything i can do to fix it so it does not happen again??

Cheers

[drkhalaf]

Quick question

I have occasionally noticed that when i have picked up my wizard and about to start using it , that the screen is in landscape mode when it should be in portrait mode. (with the default being portrait and the keyboard not slid out)

The wizard then very quickly reverts to portrait mode without me doing anything.

Is this a bug in the software??
Is there anything i can do to fix it so it does not happen again??

Cheers

[hrb]

Is there a way to get the screen to rotate without assigning it to a button... ideally I'd like something in the start menu that rotates the screen - if anyone has any ideas if such a program/function exists!

I would also be interested in that. Haven't found which applet does that in order to make a shortcut.
Cheers
hrb

[wizzzard]

Are you using the standard case with your wizzard? I read somewhere that the magnets which keep the case closed affect the method of detecting if the keyboard is open. I know that when I was using VJokbutton if I closed the camera app using this program the screen remained in landscape mode irrespective of keyboard in/out status. Default behaviour returns after a soft reset.
Hope this helps.
Al