Change screen orientation programmatically??

[taximania]

Originally Posted by Put Claude

Hi,
I upload again the orientation programs, you have to use them with the
shell function:
If isppc = True Then Shell("Lndsc270.exe", "")

Put Claude Belgium

And, as usual for my device, the 'orientation programs' don't work.
I am programming on the device.

Sub Globals
    'Declare the global variables here.

End Sub

Sub App_Start
    Form1.Show
End Sub


Sub Button1_Click
if isppc = true then Shell("Lndsc270.exe", "")

End Sub

If 'isppc' is invalid, you mean cPPC. Which still doesn't work on my device.
I will post more tomorrow after work.
I get the time to program the device at work

[Put Claude]

hi taxmania,

Sorry if not understandable, this is a piece from the code, an I did not mentioning the variable 'isppc'...
Sub global

isppc=0

End Sub

Sub App_Start 'POINT to start

isppc = CPPC 'returns False or True=PPC, check if running on desktop or PPC
If isppc = True Then Shell("Lndsc270.exe", "")

work with variable, so I have not togo trough the cPPC function all the time...
Works with me on 4 different Pockets WM3 SE, WM 5, WM6 Pro....
Good luc....

Put Claude Belgium

[SonicSue]

How do I detect change in screen orientation and have my form switch/adjust? I have an application that when the user slides out the keyboard and the screen rotates, the buttons do not rotate with the rest of the controls (labels and text boxes), and they (the buttons) cease to function. Thanks in advance. Please provide as much detail as possible because I am quite the newbie.

[agraham]

If you are using WM5.0 or later then you could try using my http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/addit...5-0-later.html to see if you can get a StateChanged event when the system DisplayRotation state changes. I've just noticed that there is a typo in the help . The second description titled GetState that returns a reference should be titled GetValue.

Also the Device object in my http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/addit...html#post10811 lets you get and set the display rotation.

[mjcoon]

Originally Posted by agraham

Also the Device object in my http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/addit...html#post10811 lets you get and set the display rotation.

I think that Andrew meant the "Display" object (I can't find a Device object).

If you (anyone!) is using Basic4ppc - Windows Mobile programming and Pocket PC Development to get quick access to the documentation of library functions, note that it is well out of date. For instance the ControlsExDevice is shown there as having seven embedded objects whereas I count fifteen in version 1.8. The details are also correspondingly out of date too.

Mike.

[agraham]

Thanks Mike. I did mean Display, this old memory is getting worse I should have checked!

[corwin42]

Originally Posted by SonicSue

How do I detect change in screen orientation and have my form switch/adjust?

The easiest way to detect a screen rotation is the Resize event of the formlib.
See formlib helpfile for a small example.

There are several ways for adjusting the controls to screen resolution changes. I'm currently writing a small tutorial for adjusting applications for several screen resolutions. I hope to post it in a few days.

Greetings

[SonicSue]

I will definitely be looking forward to your tutorial, since what I have is not working...

[SonicSue]

Originally Posted by agraham

If you are using WM5.0 or later then you could try using my http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/addit...5-0-later.html to see if you can get a StateChanged event when the system DisplayRotation state changes. I've just noticed that there is a typo in the help . The second description titled GetState that returns a reference should be titled GetValue.

The help file opens but all I get is the menu and no details...

[agraham]

It's a security "feature" because it's a downloaded file. Right click on the file name, select Properties and there's a checkbox to unblock it somewhere.