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Rotate Screen Button

Hi all,
I wonder if anyone can help. In the SBP panel there's a nice 'rotate screen' button under the tool menu.
Now i've got TFL3D installed and would like a quick way to rotate screen (I use TomTom7 and the phone is held in a generic car holder horizontally)
I liked to rotate the screen quickly then start up tom tom (As the onscreen keyboard is thumbable when horizontal)
Now using TFL3D there's no quick way (you have to goto start menu/settings/system/screen)
I was wondering is there anyway it can be installed as a program somehow and added to the program page?....Thoughts?
Thanking you in advance.

What I did is I made one of my silver hard buttons be a Portrait/Landscape toggle button.
To do this, go to Start --> Settings --> Personal tab --> Buttons
Now you can choose the left or right silver key, and under "Assign a program" you can pick "<Rotate Screen>".
By pressing it and re-orienting the phone at the same time, I accidentally fooled a friend into thinking that it has an accelerometer lol cuz he didn't notice me pressing it.

too bad we can only map 2 keys... I want to remap camera and panel button

holdout said:
What I did is I made one of my silver hard buttons be a Portrait/Landscape toggle button.
To do this, go to Start --> Settings --> Personal tab --> Buttons
Now you can choose the left or right silver key, and under "Assign a program" you can pick "<Rotate Screen>".
By pressing it and re-orienting the phone at the same time, I accidentally fooled a friend into thinking that it has an accelerometer lol cuz he didn't notice me pressing it.
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Yeh, I did think of that, but I prefer the mappings of my hard buttons to be 'more useful' i.e. something that I use all the time, rather than the rotate function.
I was primarily asking if an .exe could be written that would rotate the screen, I then could install it as a program and add to the program screen.
Does any of the programmers here think that's possible? (I'm gonna admit that this is kind of a begging post)

holdout said:
What I did is I made one of my silver hard buttons be a Portrait/Landscape toggle button.
To do this, go to Start --> Settings --> Personal tab --> Buttons
Now you can choose the left or right silver key, and under "Assign a program" you can pick "<Rotate Screen>".
By pressing it and re-orienting the phone at the same time, I accidentally fooled a friend into thinking that it has an accelerometer lol cuz he didn't notice me pressing it.
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Regesteryyyy?

so..nobody has any ideas then?

I use AE Button Plus to map double clicking the camera button (pressed just lightly, not enough to take a picture) to rotate the screen.
The line in AEBPlus.cfg is
Key 00c5 a0000 a0015 a0000 a0000
...though you can also go through the File menu and select Add button.
The default action for the button is nothing, so it's a good choice for something like this.

THJahar said:
Hi all,
I was wondering is there anyway it can be installed as a program somehow and added to the program page?....Thoughts?
Thanking you in advance.
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First, download and install Mortscript via http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=page&entry=ms_overview&action=view&menu=29
Second, create a file tomtom.mscr that contains the following script:
Code:
If ( ProcExists("TomTom Navigator.exe") )
Show("TomTom Navigator")
Else
Run( "\Program Files\Navigator\TomTom Navigator.exe" )
EndIf
Sleep(1000)
If (ExternalPowered())
Rotate 270
EndIf
Third, create a shortcut in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs to this tomtom.mscr file.
And if you want a nice TomTom-icon for your shortcut, change the shortcut file to:
Code:
24#"\My Documents\tomtom.mscr"?\Program Files\Navigator\TomTom Navigator.exe,-0
(my tomtom.mscr is in \My Documents)
After this you have a shortcut to start TomTom if not started yet, to quickly show TomTom if already started, and it will automatically rotate the screen if it is charging in your car holder.

wensing said:
First, download and install Mortscript via http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=page&entry=ms_overview&action=view&menu=29
Second, create a file tomtom.mscr that contains the following script:
Code:
If ( ProcExists("TomTom Navigator.exe") )
Show("TomTom Navigator")
Else
Run( "\Program Files\Navigator\TomTom Navigator.exe" )
EndIf
Sleep(1000)
If (ExternalPowered())
Rotate 270
EndIf
Third, create a shortcut in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs to this tomtom.mscr file.
And if you want a nice TomTom-icon for your shortcut, change the shortcut file to:
Code:
24#"\My Documents\tomtom.mscr"?\Program Files\Navigator\TomTom Navigator.exe,-0
(my tomtom.mscr is in \My Documents)
After this you have a shortcut to start TomTom if not started yet, to quickly show TomTom if already started, and it will automatically rotate the screen if it is charging in your car holder.
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Awesome! Works a treat, thank you so much

manual rotate button?

is there a way to place a button on the screan in the menu bar or start dropdown that will let you manually rotate the screan on the diamond?

whats wrong with the hardware button?

Rotate Screen
Couldn't find the registry tweaks I used to do this and map the Long Send key to rotate when I want...but you can try this:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=429784&highlight=rotate#post429784
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=38642
Jim

Hardware Button
After reading post #2 remembered
Start>Settings>Buttons Go to bottom and select assign program and scroll to <Rotate Screen>
Now when you hold your send key it manually rotates the screen
Jim

yea I did that but for some reason more times than not, when I use the send key it sometimes just goes back to the home screen. Is there a way to put a touch screen button on the screen so I can just tap it?

jelive said:
After reading post #2 remembered
Start>Settings>Buttons Go to bottom and select assign program and scroll to <Rotate Screen>
Now when you hold your send key it manually rotates the screen
Jim
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Any idea why I don't have a <Rotate Scree> option on my Sprint Diamond?

You need to enable it in the registry
HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation\HideOrientationUI - change value to 0

kien said:
You need to enable it in the registry
HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation\HideOrientationUI - change value to 0
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I believe there is an option in advanced config or diamond tweak that enables this as well, can't remember which one. I use them both...

romagnus said:
yea I did that but for some reason more times than not, when I use the send key it sometimes just goes back to the home screen. Is there a way to put a touch screen button on the screen so I can just tap it?
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Did you also make the registry change mentioned in post #7 and look in Programs/Tools...you should have a Rotate Screen icon you can use.
Jim

jelive said:
Did you also make the registry change mentioned in post #7 and look in Programs/Tools...you should have a Rotate Screen icon you can use.
Jim
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I did but I don't see the icon that you speak of. If you have a direction you can point me in I would appreciate it.

kien said:
You need to enable it in the registry
HKLM\System\GDI\Rotation\HideOrientationUI - change value to 0
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nice trick, dunno why htc chose to disable it ^^ here's a cab for the lazy:

[APP] DredSensor v1.1 - Allow you to personalize Hard Key Actions

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New version 1.2 available here
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DredSensor v1.1d:
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Link ->: DredSensor-v1.1d
New features in v1.1d:
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Let you choose which Key/Action you affect to each key.
Launcher Mode let you affect an Action for:
Double Tap event
Click event
Long click event
An icon for config tool is created in Program list.
Cache Program List for quick loading in Config window.
Fixes a few bug from v1.1, v1.1b and v1.1c
Tips:
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If you upgrade to this version, your config file will be cleared (sorry ).
To define a profile that applies on every applications, launch config tool and edit "Default" config.
If the key you want to affect is not listed, you can define it manually:
Type "Key:[email protected]@", with @@ = VKey code of the key you want to affect.
You can find VKey code list on : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb431750.aspx
=======================================================================================
DredSensor v1.0:
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Reviewed on gadgetmix.com: See the article
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If you have tried to play a game needing left and right key on an HTC Touch Diamond, you noticed that they are 2mm wide and if you click next to it, you get back to home page or to dialing menu etc...
So I've written a prog allowing you to lock these 4 keys actions and replace it by classical key event (VK_LEFT, VK_RIGHT, ...).
In that way you can play tetris, and use "Pick-Up" and "Hang-Up" keys for going left and right.
Link ->: DredSensor
To use it, you need:
1) An HTC Touch Diamond (it's the only one i have so i can't test it on other models)
2) Install the .cab
3) Reboot your HTC
4) Run a game (or app or ...)
5) Get your stylus out and back-in, in less than 1 second
6) Click "Yes"
----- A config window opens:
7) Check that Type = "HardKeySimul"
8) Click "Ok"
Now you can use (and eventually assign) your 'Home', 'Back', 'Pick-Up' and 'Hang-Up' keys in that game/app.
Actually, the 'Pick-Up' and 'Hang-Up' keys are always defined as Left and Right events.
Have fun.
Ps:
For people interested, the other "Type" in the config window are:
- "Launcher": allow you to quicklaunch 4 app (that you define in the config wnd) when you double tap (not click, just tap) on one of those 4 keyz
- "Scroll": allow you to scroll the current window by tapping those 4 keyz panel
- "KeySimul": allow you to send left/right/up/down events by tapping those 4 keyz panel

Thx, now I can use opera mini and pie (good for mlb's wap) in full screen

Thank you very much. Great program. Now, with left and right softkey hardware buttons, I can play with my java games.

Claus72 said:
Thank you very much. Great program. Now, with left and right softkey hardware buttons, I can play with my java games.
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Do any of them even work on the vga screen?

first of all: great app!
only thing i don't like is that now every time i pull out the stylus the phone vibrates. maybe you could make the "window-catching-thing" optional, so you have to enable it first?!? with that, the app would be perfect to me!
figured out an other problem: the "scroll-wheel-function" in opera and tomtom doesn't work anymore...

Herr_Knigge said:
first of all: great app!
only thing i don't like is that now every time i pull out the stylus the phone vibrates. maybe you could make the "window-catching-thing" optional, so you have to enable it first?!? with that, the app would be perfect to me!
figured out an other problem: the "scroll-wheel-function" in opera and tomtom doesn't work anymore...
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Hello.
As it's a background program, making vivrate the phone is the best way i found to easlily know if it's loaded or not.
If you don't like that, you can disable it by manually editing the 'Config.ini' file in '/Program Files/DredSensor':
Go under the section you want to disable vibrator in (ex: "[Default]")
Add: "NoVibrate=1"
For the scroll problem, i didn't change scrolling system from v1.0 so are you sure it was working in v1.0 and it's no more working in v1.1?

@Dredger97
Thank´s for this wonderful tool!
Greeting
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is there a wa to map home/back to A/B controller buttons? Trying to get it to work with PocketNester Thanks

Thanks
I will tried

Seems to be good. Shall download and try...

Doesn't work for all hard keys
I have the original diamond and it doesn't look like any of the key presses work.
I could really do with replacing volume and Home/Back Buttons. Do these buttons
support Long press too?

bugsykoosh said:
is there a wa to map home/back to A/B controller buttons? Trying to get it to work with PocketNester Thanks
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If you go in PocketNester -> Option -> Controller, you can see that it's default mapped to 0xC4 and 0xC3 key codes.
So all you have to set in DredSensor is:
- Home: "Key:0xC4"
- Back: "Key:0xC3"
I tried that on super mario, it works, but the problem is that you can't press those keys and simultaneously press Left and Right so it's quite hard to play...
In fact you can map Volume Up and Down keyz to button A and B and it's much easier to play.

djfuego said:
I have the original diamond and it doesn't look like any of the key presses work.
I could really do with replacing volume and Home/Back Buttons. Do these buttons
support Long press too?
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The actual version of DredSensor doesn't change anything to volume up/down buttons.
All it catches is Home,Back,Talk and End hard keys.
About long press,
- In "Launcher" mode, you can define action for "Long click"
- In "HardKeySimul" mode, if you make a long press to "Home", and mapped "Left" key to "Home" button, it will occure a long press on "Left" key.

I just don't seem to be able to get this to work - I follow the first post to remap the home and back keys to the softkeys, but home always takes me back to touchflo.
Are there any other things I can try, or is it just the ROM i'm using doing this?

Furbious said:
I just don't seem to be able to get this to work - I follow the first post to remap the home and back keys to the softkeys, but home always takes me back to touchflo.
Are there any other things I can try, or is it just the ROM i'm using doing this?
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I don't think it's a ROM problem.
The 2 most common reasons for not working are:
It doesn't work if you have G-Scroll or something similar installed.
When you edit config for an App, this config only applies when "Window Title" and "ClassName" of the foreground window matches what is defined in that Config.
If it doesn't match any config, DredSensor doesn't catch your hard keys.
You can use wildcards in your Config so, for example, if the app you want to configure always changes its title, you can set "*" for window title.

everything gose well in my diamond! Thx!
just a little suggestion : as volume up/down could be very useful in some app (like a game emulator), could you make them configurable in your next version?
nice job!

Furbious said:
I just don't seem to be able to get this to work - I follow the first post to remap the home and back keys to the softkeys, but home always takes me back to touchflo.
Are there any other things I can try, or is it just the ROM i'm using doing this?
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I make a softreset and works whit no problem, when i click home button open the program i assign.

Doesn't seem to work in Phone screen. I am not sure if it is because it is a dialog class. If this could be made to work, it would be great as when a person has multiple phone numbers you could scroll by pressing right or left key.
Thanks in advance

just tested it with tetris and it worked great. good stuff

Dredger97 said:
I don't think it's a ROM problem.
The 2 most common reasons for not working are:
It doesn't work if you have G-Scroll or something similar installed.
When you edit config for an App, this config only applies when "Window Title" and "ClassName" of the foreground window matches what is defined in that Config.
If it doesn't match any config, DredSensor doesn't catch your hard keys.
You can use wildcards in your Config so, for example, if the app you want to configure always changes its title, you can set "*" for window title.
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I've nothing like that installed - I've tried wildcards, and soft resetting between altering them, even setting the default so that it should catch any class or window so that the home and back keys are soft keys one and two.
It's semi trapping the window and keys.......I just wonder if your app is not being fed the correct window name/class, or there's some extra characters or something that is fooling it.
Here's an example - setting home and back keys to the softkeys, with a config of * for window, and * for class.
On the touchflo screen, pressing home will take it to the phone screen (correct left softkey action), but once in the phone screen, pressing home takes it to the touchflo screen when it should go to contacts.
If I'm in any other application, it never traps the home key, and will always go back to touchflo. Disabling touchflo doesn't change this, it takes it back to the today screen.
I'm using shak's rom if anyone else can confirm they can get it to work using that one

Reverse rotation registry key

Hi all I am using this registry modification
HKLM/System/GDI/Rotation and put HideOrientationUI at 0 in order to used the landscape mode link to a button. All is working well but I have an issue with tomtom.
I need to have a reverse landscape and not a normal landscape with this button
But I don't know which modification I need to do (a dword for example ....) in order to change the way of the rotation Is there a nice programmer able to help me
Thanks

I would like to know this as well...
I'm sure somone here knows what has to be done!

You probably won't need this if you're using tilt screen and similar product. Just tick 0 and 90 degrees as allowed orientation, and untick the 270 degree.

I used advanced config, set it to 90 degrees
Works a treat, when I use Excel or any other application I can scroll easier avoiding hitting the hardware buttons ie call/end buttons.

dataSaMm said:
I used advanced config, set it to 90 degrees
Works a treat, when I use Excel or any other application I can scroll easier avoiding hitting the hardware buttons ie call/end buttons.
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Perfect! Thanks!

I have found the registry key to move
it's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\Rotation\LandscapeMode and move the dword value from 4 to 1
Now my new question is how to make two shortcuts able to change the value of this registry key automaticaly. I tried to make a .reg but when I launched it it's only opening my regedit software but nothing happen in the WM6 registry.
Someone could help me
Thanks

Rotate screen possible without slideout ?

Hello everyone,
i've been trying several roms since few days.. and love them all
appreciate all the work you guys do, but i have this one little thing that i wish i had.
Why do i need to use the keyboard to go to landscape? is there no other option?
(i cant seem to find it..)
So i would like my screen to always rotate in every app when i rotate the phone.. (g-sensor rotate is on, but hardly ever works auto) OR have a key or app that i can use that overrules the sensor and just let me choose landscape mode.
Because the auto rotate doesnt seem to do that for most programs untill you slide the keyboard out. but i dont need my keyboard...
examples: i like tomtom in landscape, but not with the keyboard slide out!
(that way it wont fit in my carkit..)
and i want to be able to rotate a movie or tekst message whenever i want to..
etc etc.. (with the g-sensor OR some key or APP or something else)
or is the answer: its impossible? can hardly believe that, because it seems so easy to do.
thanks for any help

Search for ChangeScreen or G-Config.
Or set Send Key to rotate manually:
HKLM/System/GDI/Rotation change the "HideOrientationUI" from 1 to 0
Now you van remap the Send Key to do this on long press. [FONT=&quot][/FONT]

use this cab to rotate TF3d with out the keyboard
than use the g config app to add other programs to the rotate list, once you add the cab or any program using g config you have to soft reset for them to work
edit i have tom tom and adding it to g config app work great in landscape

very very nice
works like a charm with not much lag.
thank you.

just to let you know what i found as my final solution (for now) after lots of trying different roms:
i read somewhere here, (cant find it anymore) about setting the hardware "back" key to rotate screen on double click...
so no auto rotating anymore, only when i want to, with this tool:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=554240
Together with the ROM:
Phoenix 2 Sense 2.1 EnergyROM_28011_RHODIUM_07.Dec.2009_Standard.rar
it all works like a charm.. manila rotates very quick and everything else.
rom has start button on bottom and standard 4 columns in programs, nice agenda in landscape, yes i like this one
coreplayer works good.. no accidental rotates etc
i can just lay in bed and watch my favorite movie without troubles.
tomtom in widescreen in my car etc etc
thank you all for this superb forum

Try these Registry Settings
1. HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila -> add a new String Value with the name "EnableLandscape" and the value "true" (both without "")
2. HKCU\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\ModuleName -> add a new String Value with the name "TF3D" and the value "\Windows\manila.exe" (both without "")
3. HKCU\Software\HTC\HTCSENSOR\GSensor\WhiteList -> add a new String Value: Name: "TF3D Value: "Manila" (both without "")
4. Change HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila DisableRotation value to 0 from 1.
5. Softreset

Search for flip_IT, found it in topaz forum, burried somewhere. It works awesome with WM6.5.x builds.

i used this clever little addin and made a shortcut in start menu n quicklaunch panel enjoy !
but as i found some programs will no look right when used in landscape mode.