Re: Screen orientation (left/right handed landscape)

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From: Charles Schweizer [MSFT] (cschweiz_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:20:10 -0700

I believe the touch screen driver would normally handle this for you. There
may be an issue with the emulator's mouse driver. Left- versus right-handed
orientation should be transparent to the application. 

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"dave" <dave@parystec.demon.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> Hi all,
>
> I have followed the MS information on how to use the
> new VGA mode and portrait/landscape orientation in
> a GAPI environment using the "extEscape" method and
> GetSystemMetrics in C++ but I can't seem to find any
> way of telling whether the user is in left-handed or
> right-handed landscape mode on a PPC which has this
> choice (or at least on the emlator) - how do I do this ?
> (I'm getting the mouse coords backwards at the moment
> when in left-handed landscape mode but graphically the
> screen is as I want it and the arrow buttons are working
> as I want them but I need to know when to reverse the
> mouse coords ie. when is screen left-handed landscape).
> All I can think of is using the system to set a pixel and
> then testing if it's setting the correct pixel in the raw frame
> buffer but that seems a little naff.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Dave (Parys Technografx)
>
>
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