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Auto screen rotation??

Ok folks, many of you will probably now know that TomTom Navigator 6 is available.
Apart from features added, they have removed the scren orientation option in the preferences.
A rough and ready solution is the magnet near the camera button trick.
What would be slick, is if we could adapt the TT today plugin to do the following.
Tap TT today > This then sets rotation > then runs tomtom
The wizard has this in the settings so can we control it from a command line in the shortcut of the today plugin???
Come on boffins, there must be a way?

Couldn't you use mortscript?
V

vijay555 said:
Couldn't you use mortscript?
V
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To be perfectly honest my friend, I dont have the first idea of where to start LOL
I was throwing the idea open to others in the hope that someone could explain how to do it.
Whats mortscript?? :lol:

why not use ae button plus to rotate the screen i installed this and can confirm that it works perfect i used the voice record single press and just press it and rotate the screen http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus.php

eddieitman said:
why not use ae button plus to rotate the screen i installed this and can confirm that it works perfect i used the voice record single press and just press it and rotate the screen http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus.php
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I installed AE to give it a try and couldnt believe all that it can do.
I must admit its good, but i'm lazy, I have to press my voice button 3 times to get it how I want it!! :lol: :lol:
Now if only AE had a "rotate clockwise" or "rotate anti-clockwise", :lol: :lol:
I'm still going to look at installing a magnet, so it rotates as i put the phone on the holder.
I think the numbers are easier to dial in landscape mode.

X-button on the lower-right corner?

As lots of users here I suppose, I mostly use my finger for screen touching and I find it a bit annoying to always drive my thumb all the way up to the upper-right corner so lower corners x-button would be a much better solution. No i'm not that lazy, but driving my thumb up sometimes loosens my grip on the device. Plus, I think that this solution increases working speed as well.
Is there any application which can be used to put an x-button on the lower-right corner of the screen (or lower-left for lefties)? e.g, next to the right/left softkeys.
If this app doesn't exist don't you think it would a great idea for a new one? Thx a lot.

I always use my OK button on the lower panel.. Look at attachment picture.. The OK button acts as a close

baselsw said:
I always use my OK button on the lower panel.. Look at attachment picture.. The OK button acts as a close
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Oops... I missed an important info: I'm using an hTc Touch so no hardware ok button.. my bad

CarlosT said:
Oops... I missed an important info: I'm using an hTc Touch so no hardware ok button.. my bad
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I own a Touch too, and I mapped the camera button to OK/Close.
If you still want to have the camerabutton, there's software to add short presses and long presses for different apps

helterskelter said:
I own a Touch too, and I mapped the camera button to OK/Close.
If you still want to have the camerabutton, there's software to add short presses and long presses for different apps
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Yeah yeah I've already tried all this.. But I think I was precise in what I asked for: A lower-right corner on-screen x-button.

CarlosT said:
Yeah yeah I've already tried all this.. But I think I was precise in what I asked for: A lower-right corner on-screen x-button.
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Sorry for commenting!

I'm using Atom Exec and just install AEBPlus (Bind softkey) + HandyLaunch (Right menu on Tray) and setup to when i press message key (Atom is multimedia key) then bind to open menu ... so convenience

kodomo said:
I'm using Atom Exec and just install AEBPlus (Bind softkey) + HandyLaunch (Right menu on Tray) and setup to when i press message key (Atom is multimedia key) then bind to open menu ... so convenience
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Some Screenshot of AEBPlus setting and HL
(Sorry for orientation:
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On other devices I have owned, the red telephone button acted as an OK/Close button, however, on the HTC Touch, a short press closes GPRS connection, and a long press locks the device.
However, it might suit you to change the registry to map this key back to the OK/Close button.
I haven't ever come across something which puts the x button on the bottom right hand side of the screen.

use phm powerToys to add any program (such as a close link) to the tray of your ppc (cab below the url link)
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/PowerToys/
or vijay555's tool
http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJTrayLaunch
you may need an app coling tool like this one
http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJOkButt

Switching between portrait <-> landscape

Hi forum
Where can i manually switch between portrait and landscape mode? In WinMobile 2002 there was an icon on the bottom bar that did rotate the screen by 90 degrees. But i don't see it anymore. I don't want to pull out the qwerty keyboard everytime i want to switch to landscape mode. Tanks in advance.

Setting - System - Screen

You are able to assign the screen rotation to a hardware key. So it is only one click to rotate the screen
danielham

But this works only for the left and right softkey..if i need thoose i cant rotate, right?

nurps said:
But this works only for the left and right softkey..if i need thoose i cant rotate, right?
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Use AEBPlus - as far as im aware it is freeware. When I used it I found that it had a very low memory footprint and didnt slow windows down at all (in comparison with say Voice Command). AEBPlus enables you to assign anything to any button, including different states of button press (ie short press, long press, double press). For example I used the camera button half push (which normally controls auto focus) for rotating the screen. If you dont wanna loose your softkeys you could could have single press as softkey, double press as rotate screen have fun!

the problem is that Aeb turns the screen full 360 degrees in 4 steps (starting in the wrong direction)..while the native experia rotate only does the 2 settings you get when you slide it open..which i like more

how assign rotation (Setting-system-screen) to a leftkey

Did you ever get an answer to this? I too would like to know how to assign the landscape/portrait switch to a soft key.
Thanks,
Ian

completelyhis said:
Did you ever get an answer to this? I too would like to know how to assign the landscape/portrait switch to a soft key.
Thanks,
Ian
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Softkeys are the two silver looking buttons below the screen.
Too change, go to Start > Settings > Buttons > Select either "Left key" or "Right key" and assign "<Rotate Screen>" via the dropdown menu below.

nurps said:
the problem is that Aeb turns the screen full 360 degrees in 4 steps (starting in the wrong direction)..while the native experia rotate only does the 2 settings you get when you slide it open..which i like more
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If you go to Options -> Screen Orientation and select only 0 and 270 degrees, it will work like you want.

superweijie said:
Softkeys are the two silver looking buttons below the screen.
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I'm pretty sure softkeys are the functions shown on the bottom of the screen. The two silver buttons are called left and right button usually I guess.
Often those keys will press the corresponding softkey, but they can be programmed to do other things with software like AEB+.

My bad, I meant left/right key. I do know the difference, I just had not had my coffee yet. thanks for the info!

what have I done?

Hi everyone. Noobie here!
When I scroll through the menus on my Treo Pro, to go up and down I have to press left and right on the centre ring button.
Is there anywhere in the menus where I can reset this as it's driving me mad!!
Thanks
Rick

D-Pad: Go up and down, have to push left or right!!!
richardlkay said:
Hi everyone. Noobie here!
When I scroll through the menus on my Treo Pro, to go up and down I have to press left and right on the centre ring button.
Is there anywhere in the menus where I can reset this as it's driving me mad!!
Thanks
Rick
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I'd love to know if you found a solution for this, as mine started this S*** about a month ago and I have NOT found a solution on my Treo Pro. HELP!

I've had the same thing happen to mine when i tries SPB MS3. I pressed the rotate screen button in the software, and the screen did not change...But the cursor buttons did.
What software have you run?

Maybe you can find the setting of buttons on System or Option? Usually the buttons setting is in the System or Option like my ZorroGPS.

Somehow, you have changed your screen orientation to landscape. search for an app to change from landscape. i had this issue and i dont remember where i found the app. last alternative is a hard rest.

Change registry entry HKLM/system/GDI/Rotation/Angle from whatever it is (in my case 270) to 0
Worked for me.

media panel pictures in landscape

Is there any way i can look at pictures in the media panel in fullscreen landscape without always sliding out the keyboard? the problem is that i could set a softkey to rotate the screen but i need the softkeys for some apps and they wont work right when i set the softkey for landscape. any ideas?

still no ideas?

Theres no accelerometer or anything like that in the x1, so i assume that the only way to activate landscape is to set it to a hardware button or open the keyboard.

maybe there is something like a registry entry where you can set landscape as default mode when opening a picture? like it does with the videos. i have no idea if this is possible with a reg entry so im asking you guys here ^^

I use SPB Pocket Plus to set the Buttons. There you can also set a "long button press" to get more possible functions than there are buttons. E.g. short press right softkey = normal function, long press right softkey = rotate screen...
The difference between long and short is big enough to prevent accidential long presses, unwanted short ones are in your hands
Hope that helps...
sb

sb2008 said:
I use SPB Pocket Plus to set the Buttons. There you can also set a "long button press" to get more possible functions than there are buttons. E.g. short press right softkey = normal function, long press right softkey = rotate screen...
The difference between long and short is big enough to prevent accidential long presses, unwanted short ones are in your hands
Hope that helps...
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Thanks man, works awesome!