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Author Topic: SOLVED: Screen rotation -> possible in AHK ?  (Read 13963 times)

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SOLVED: Screen rotation -> possible in AHK ?
« on: September 16, 2007, 05:16 PM »
Well, the title sums it up quite well. I have a new monitor that has rotation capabilities. The manual says you have to download some software to take full advantage of it but it sucks. I can change the screen rotation via the display properties but it takes too much time. So i tried iRotate which is pretty much what i'm looking for, but the hotkeys (Ctrl Alt Up, Ctrl Alt Left, etc) can't be changed, so it's really annoying.

So i thought i could try to do an ahk script to rotate display using hotkeys, the only problem is : i don't know where to start :) So i'm not asking for anyone to do it for me, but i'm looking for any lead or information that could help me getting startes on this script.

Thanks :)

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Re: SOLVED: Screen rotation -> possible in AHK ?
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2007, 06:42 PM »
If iRotate can do it and you only don't like the hotkeys, you could just remap them in ahk :)
I have no idea to rotate the screen in ahk, though.

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Re: SOLVED: Screen rotation -> possible in AHK ?
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2007, 08:37 PM »
The problem is that these hotkeys already exist in Photoshop, so i'm going to rotate my screen without wanting to :)

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Re: SOLVED: Screen rotation -> possible in AHK ?
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2007, 03:39 PM »
ak_,
if you have an ATI graphics card then the utility ATI Tray Tool (ATT) might work: http://www.guru3d.co...le/atitraytools/189/ .
It is free, supports screen rotation and can be set to use any hotkey you want.
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And if you don't want it running all the time you could make an AHK script that, when a hotkey is pressed, launches ATT, sends the screen rotation hotkey, exits (and on next hotkey press toggles back). You could also easily add a step where some additional tool saves/restores the desktop icon positions (ATT can save/restore icon position but if I remember correctly it's not possible to do that through a hotkey)
And if you don't have an ATI card, you can forget all this. ;D

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Re: SOLVED: Screen rotation -> possible in AHK ?
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2007, 06:24 PM »
Nod5> thanks, but i have a nVidia card :)

Anyway, i should get "RTFM" tattooed on my forehead because iRotate accepts command line parameters, so i just had to create ahk hotkeys and now it's perfect :) You can also redefine hotkeys but it's not very flexible.

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Re: SOLVED: Screen rotation -> possible in AHK ?
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2010, 09:03 PM »
reviving an old topic but i had been looking for something similar and found the solution via nVidia's DTCFG Desktop Configuration Commands.

Description    Rotate a display to the designated orientation.
Format          rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll,dtcfg rotate <display#> <angle: 0,90,180,270>

Example        rundll32.exe NvCpl.dll,dtcfg rotate 2 90
                   Rotates display #2 to the 90 degree position.
-rotate

http://docs.google.c...ControlPanel_API.pdf