Hi,
All my applications have a Landscape orientation with hard buttons of my HD2 on the Right.
Is it possible to change this orientation to have Landscape orientation with hard buttons on the right, for all applications?
Or, is it possible to change the orientation for only one application, say TomTom?
by advance, thanks for yours answers.
I think it makes a lot of sense to have hard buttons on the left (I guess you made a mistake in your question). There are at least two reasons:
1. When typing, left thumb covers light sensor, so screen is dimmed.
2. Arrow keys on landscape keyboard are on the right side. Now you have to reach across both them and hard keys, with your right hand. If rotation was 90 degrees, keyboard would be more centered, so all keys would be easier to reach.
I tried searching the registry, but without success. So, I'm looking for the same thing. How to change UI orientation so that phone can be used in right/clockwise landscape orientation?
d4v0r said:
I think it makes a lot of sense to have hard buttons on the left (I guess you made a mistake in your question). There are at least two reasons:
1. When typing, left thumb covers light sensor, so screen is dimmed.
2. Arrow keys on landscape keyboard are on the right side. Now you have to reach across both them and hard keys, with your right hand. If rotation was 90 degrees, keyboard would be more centered, so all keys would be easier to reach.
I tried searching the registry, but without success. So, I'm looking for the same thing. How to change UI orientation so that phone can be used in right/clockwise landscape orientation?
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I agree with this post. I would like to know how to change the screen oritntation clockwise so the sensor is on the upper right corner when you are using it.
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Can someone please help me tweak the setting which makes the screen rotate from landscape to portrait when the screen gets slid back over the keyboard.
I have a hardware button mapped to rotate the screen. I often use the unit in landscape and when doing so I occasionally want access to the keyboard. So I slide the screen up, type whatever I want to type, then slide it back. It's very annoying that doing so forces the screen back to portrait.
The behaviour I want is this:
[When in portrait] sliding open causes rotation to landscape.
[When in landscape] sliding open changes nothing.
[When in landscape] sliding closed changes nothing (currently it causes rotation to portrait).
1 & 2 are the default behaviours. Is it possible to keep them and add 3?
I think I have stumbled accross a solution to your problem.
I use VJOkButt from www.vijay.com mapped to the top right hardware button. This closes rather than minimses the currnet app when pressed. Anyway to achieve your option 3 all I do is Press the camera hardware button, this switches you to Landscape. If you click on the X to close the camera app the screen returns to portrait but if you press the hardware button mapped to VJOkButt the camera closes but the screen remains in landscape. Best of all opening or closing the keyboard does not change screen orientation. You can still manually change orientation back to Portrait from Settings>Screen. Soft reset will return to original functionality e.g. slide the keyboard to change orientation.
Hope this works for you.
Al
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Guys, anyone using VJOkButt should upgrade to this version, v0.73:
http://www.vijay555.com/vj/Releases/VJOkButt/VJOkButt.exe
I introduced a memory leak in 0.72 and tracked it down this lunch time. I haven't cabbed this up yet, because I'm still testing, but it should be more reliable (long term) then 0.72 which is available on my site at the moment.
Also one bug - I've made the window closing slightly too severe, so occassionally it will close a small dialog AND it's parent. This is only in isolated circumstances, but I'll fix this ASAP.
V
Sorry mate I'm having a typo day today
www.vijay555.com it is.
Thanks for your hard work.
I appreciate the effort you you put in to improving life for the PDAphone community. Programming is a dark art to me but I would love to learn. I used to break out in a sweat just with simple dos scripts.
Al
I am looking for a way for landscape to be the default view.
I have tried many things but once the keyboard is opened and closed, the screen goes back to portrait.
Any help would be appreciated.
-bridic-
nope... not doable I guess... there is some app out there that can sense if it's in one mode and switches to another but that basically means u have 2 switches and even more lag... there is no way to keep it on landscape mode I guess because there is some magnetic reaction that happens when u open the keyboard which can't be turned off...
that is just what I read on forums trying to find answer to same problem... i gave up
Thanks for the info.
Is there a way to map this to a hardware button? I know that there are a few programs out there for mapping additional features to the hardware button.
well ya u can map rotate to a button even with regular buttons mapping setting.
Settings - Personal - Buttons
Pick your button and choose Rotate Screen it's one of the first fiew in the list... (sorry if it's not exactly Rotate Screen im running on memory here)
Hello,
Is there a way (program or tool) to rotate the device screen with gestures?
I think any application that would do this would have a hard time telling between normal stylus use and a guesture.
But, its even easier to assign screen rotation to a button.
Jcostanza4
it is possible. you could install FTouch and assign the rotate.exe (somewhere in the /windows folder i think) to something like left -> right.
wktask has a gesture feature that can be mapped to screen rotate by moving left/down from the top right corner.
how complex a gesture??
You can certainly move one of your basic swipes in Touch Flo - but I have always thought that the way it is set up in HTCAlbum was quite cute. The idea that you draw a "c" on the screen and it rotates the album in that direction (or a backwards c rotating it the other way).
There was some work on more complex gesture regognition a few months back which might be able to be used to identify "rotate if I draw a C" type behaviour:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=374375
The idea that you draw a "c" on the screen and it rotates the album in that direction (or a backwards c rotating it the other way).
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Yes, I think this will be the best way to rotate the screen. Gestures like left-right, right-left will be useless, because there is many other programs, with them. For example SPB Mobile shell, S2V, etc.
It might be just one gesture symbol that rotates the screen with 90 degrees more every time when it is drawed. Then will be possibility to use more complex symbols like 8 or Z.
try mortbuttons....i think for your purposes you will need to now the path of the rotate app, make a lnk file and ensure that the shortcut works and using VJbrisk you will be have an upward swipe gesture and be able to rotate the screen..to rotate back again im not too sure about..
Hope this helps
Wisbar Advanced Desktop will allow you to do that. The final was just released yesterday. You can map that as a script to an up, down, left, and right finger swipe.
www.lakeridgesoftware.com
Ok, maybe it sounds a bit strange, but I'm wondering if there is a way to reverse the direction of the screen rotation?
I always seem to accidentally press the power button when in landscape or my palm presses against the special keys, it's getting annoying. I think it would be easier the other way, and as I use my right thumb more, my left won't contact the screen as much...
I can't be the only one....
Thx!
Cyanogen has a 360 degrees rotation built in the phone options - so anything that can rotate 90, can rotate to the left right and upside-down.
When I open landscape-only programs, the screen rotates such that I need to turn the note counter-clockwise 90 degrees. That seems odd, since the volume and off buttons are on the left side of the phone. I am right-handed, and my natural inclination is to hold the phone with my left hand and use my right with the touchscreen. It would be better for me if I could rotate the phone clockwise so that I didn't have to worry about pushing buttons with my left hand. I didn't see anything for this in the settings menus, and a quick web search didn't turn up anything. Is there a way to change the preferred landscape direction? Thanks!