Screen Rotate 180 Degrees x51v WM5

[gillius]

My new Axim x51v can rotate the screen 0 degrees, 90 degrees, and 270 degrees in hardware. I would like to rotate the screen 180 degrees so that it is upside down. I'd think that if the drivers can do landscape they should be able to do upside down, and the option was just left out in the interface because it wasn't thought to be used.

Is there a way to flip the screen 180 degrees? I've tried searching online but no help so far.

[gillius]

Ok, MS has APIs for doing this. I looked at an free class that is a wrapper around the screen orientation API in Windows and found that there does exist code: http://www.opennetcf.org/sourcebrows...&l=3&l=37&l=39

If there is not an easy solution then I will have to code something up, but I don't have a .NET environment set up and know nothing about WM programming (but I do know how to program Java, C++, etc)

All I need to do is make the call to ChangeDisplaySettingsEx which should be trivial once a prog environment is set up.

[darkdestroyer]

www.tweaks2k2.com

This program has the exact ability you ask for. Download the lite (free) version here
http://www.tweaks2k2.com/portal/file...isit.php?lid=6

Or get the full version and be able to do things like.... change your Today screen softkeys
Put both Time and Date in your upper right cornor display
Rotate 180*
Speed up display
Force VGA
And much much MUCH more!

Dont forget the 33% aximsite discount :D Search for Cititianic

[gillius]

I saw that on the tweaks2k2 site, but it says it is to rotate the screen on the hx4700?

So you are saying that the lite version can't do it? I looked at the download page for the lite version and didn't see a list. I guess I will have to just try it out.

I'm not really willing to spend money on the app when it looks like most of what it does are published registry hacks or stuff I wouldn't do anyway. Knowing that I can code the rotate screen in maybe 5 lines is enough to want to get me off my arse to download whatever SDKs I need to make a simple program for WM5, rather than pay for T2k2. It's just I wanted to try to use my pocketop keyboard to play some games without the tray quickly as I will be very busy to try to learn to write code.

But thank you for your suggestion and the mention of the aximsite discount. I'll try out the lite version of T2k2.

I said that it's very useful for hx4700 owners that have the IR port at the bottom side of that device. But the 180 rotation option is available for all users with WM2003SE and WM5.

[gillius]

Oh a reply by CTitanic. Now I feel bad about not spending $10 to have to code myself... But I am interested to try to see if I can get the .NET compact framework or C++ set up. In fact I found an example to do exactly what I want in MSDN http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/x...us,VS.80).aspx that even includes the UI code.

It seems simple enough to just try this weekend. I already have MSVS 2003, and probably to start this stuff is just to download the .NET CF. Getting the pocketop driver to work in WM5 had encouraged me to try to hack more for x51v ;).

I probably can use this rotation tool to rotate the screen to left-hand view easier than in the control panel, for better angle viewing of movies in TCPMP. If I figure out how to launch apps I can make this prog a pre-launcher...

Sorry I kinda made a question, pulled it back, then sorta hijacked my own thread ;).

EDIT: err... you can select how fullscreen works in TCPMP anyway without rotation in hardware... heh

Gillius, you don't have to waste your precious time neither money ;)

http://www.tweaks2k2.com/portal/stat...05022517002183

[gillius]

Heh, thanks, I didn't see that one. Still though, I still want to try out the .NET CF sometime and this was giving me an excuse ;). I suppose I still have the source to Virtual Earth to play with (it always opens at Redmond -- hard coded :) ). But until I can get to that I can play by games upside down so I can use my IR keyboard flat!

It says in big big letters it works in WM2003, but since it is .NET (which is portable) and the API has been there since WM2003 (ChangeDisplaySettingsEx), I'm going to assume it works ;). Actually that is why I am thinking about using .NET to program on WM5 rather than C++ because .NET seems a lot more portable. On desktop I use Java for the same reason. Sorry we are off-topic now :\.

[hoochimagoo]

I'm curious if anyone has tryed the lite version of Tweaks2k2 with WM5 and if so how well did it work?

I'm curious if anyone has tryed the lite version of Tweaks2k2 with WM5 and if so how well did it work?

The lite version has not been tested in WM5 but in another hand, the hacks included in that version should not cause any problem in a WM5 device.