[APP][02-Aug-09] Rotate Screen Utility

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Here's a quick coding of the screen rotation utility while I was developing the navigation panel. Thought it might be useful for folks who may want to have screen orientation mode such as landscape anti-clockwise and reverse portrait.



First release (v1.0) - 16th Dec 08

The utility can be run in two mode, the "UI" mode basically triggers a pop up, like the one in the screenshot. The "toggle" mode basically rotates the screen in clockwise manner.

Updated (v.1.1) - 2nd Aug 09

Updated the utility to have the ability to toggle, cycle, set via command line or menu. If you use the utility program without any parameters, it'll cycle the rotation. See readme.txt (or below) for more information

Options & Parameters
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/menu    Display pop up menu to select the orientation mode (Normal, Reverse Portrait, Landscape 90 deg, Landscape 270 deg)
/toggle  Toggle Orientation mode between Normal & Landscape
/set     Set the orientation mode, requires 2nd parameter to be the Orientation mode (see Orientation Mode definition below)

Orientation Mode Definition
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0   Normal
1   Landscape (90 deg) 
2   Reverse Portrait
3   Landscape (270 deg)

To be used with the /set option. E.g.  RotateScreen /set 3

have fun!

nice app. ideally i'd like to be able to automatically call this app with a gesture - say down and left to rotate to the left, etc.

as far as i'm aware, this would only be possible with an app such as ftouchsl (http://www.ftouchsl.com/) which i tried and couldn't get to work consistently. anyone else got any other ideas on how to easily rotate the screen ?

Thanks for sharing!!!
And wait for ur NAV Panel!!!

Originally Posted by chua333

Thanks for sharing!!!
And wait for ur NAV Panel!!!

you are most welcome

the nav panel is ready for download!

great! i have been looking forward to this app for a long time.

which Panel u made man?

oh n cool.. u r also from singapore

updated with additional feature.

Thank you !

strange... on my cingular 8500 I get with /set 3 "Invalid Orientation mode"... Every other one 0-2 works... any ideas? I'd need exactly the 270 degree version for TomTom

Originally Posted by TauTau

strange... on my cingular 8500 I get with /set 3 "Invalid Orientation mode"... Every other one 0-2 works... any ideas? I'd need exactly the 270 degree version for TomTom

my apologises, I think it should be 4 instead of 3. can you check?