Re: Rotate display questions.

From: Yannick Chamming's [eMVP] (ychammings_nospam_at_adeset.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:24:17 +0200

maybe you should better include rotate support in your specific driver (just
a lib to link with, and a few IoControl to manage, if I correctly remember).

It should be less painful than reinjecting all your own specific display
controller code in the RFLAT driver 

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"sc" <shui@no.com> wrote in message
news:u0ZiPZHKEHA.268@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> our device will actually be a kiosk-type device, so my app will always be
in
> landscape mode(from start to end, well no end, it runs forever).
> The problem is our display (for some stupid reason, Argh..) is portrait.
> So I need CE to start rotated (90/270 degrees).
> So here what I think I should do. Port the rflat driver to our hw and set
> the initial rotation(as Steve said) to 90/270 degrees, so when my
> landscape-orientated application will
> look right to the user.
>
> Are I am on how rotation will work between CE, the driver and the app?
>
>
>
> "Gary Daniels [MS]" <garydan@web.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:40871577$1@news.microsoft.com...
> > Just an addendum to what Steve says, if you want your application to
> handle
> > a rotation without having to close it and restart it, you'll have to
> handle
> > the WM_SETTINGCHANGE windows message, which is sent out when the device
> > rotates, and resize it accordingly.
> >
> > Gary Daniels
> > Windows CE GDI Test
> >
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
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> >
> > "Steve Maillet (eMVP)" <nospam1@EntelechyConsulting.com> wrote in
message
> > news:OLB0gQ$JEHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > I don't really understand the question. Ideally the application should
> be
> > > able to adjust to whatever orientation the system is used in. Barring
> that
> > > you need to write the app to whatever screen dimension you intend to
> > > support. The App itself is oblivious to the fact that everything is
> > rotated
> > > underneath. It operates identically either way other than the fact
that
> if
> > > you use fixed width windows etc.. only one orientation will actually
> look
> > > right to the user.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Steve Maillet (eMVP)
> > > EmbeddedFusion
> > > smaillet_AT_EmbeddedFusion_DOT_com
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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