is landscape possible?

[tramontano]

Just wondering if it was possible at all to switch IE on 2003 from portrait to landscape?? thank you.Steve(Ipaq h2215)

[Sven Johannsen]

With a third party product yes. The usual one is Nyditot. The drawback to all the resolution/orientation switchers prior to Wm2003SE is that it required a soft reset to make the change.

[Chris Spera]

Jimmy Software also makes one, but I also think that NYDIOT Virtual Display is better. Jimmy's has been known to be problematic and has caused a hard reset or two in the past.

[Sven Johannsen]

From JimmySoftware site

MACHINES SUPPORTED > X-scale machine ( MM O2, T-Mobile, and iPaq 39XX) > Compaq iPaq 36/37/38/39
Hp Jornada 56x > Cassiopiea E-115/EM-500/E-125/EG-800/E-200
Landscape 3.11 does not support Pocket PC 2003. New version and will release soon.

[tramontano]

thank you. Steve

[Darius Wey]

There's also DotPocket. Essentially, Nyditot and DotPocket have very similar features.

[ToddJ]

so there isn't one out there that doesn't make you do a soft reset before it switches to landscape (excluding 2003 SE obviously?)

[buzzard]

No....they all require soft resets.

[Thaedson]

I'm not a programmer.. so no stones.

Why is landscape not capable without a soft reset?

F. Ex. If I use BetaPlayer I can switch from 4:3 to widescreen and flop it on the side and watch the action. Why is it that this program can do it and others can't?

HP's failure to provide those of us with very expensive products an upgrade path to 2003 SE is the primary reason I will not be purchasing any more IPAQ's. I'll use my 5555 until it dies, then I'll find something else as I vote with my wallet on their decision. (Hope your listening HP).

[Sven Johannsen]

I'm not a programmer.. so no stones.

Why is landscape not capable without a soft reset?

F. Ex. If I use BetaPlayer I can switch from 4:3 to widescreen and flop it on the side and watch the action. Why is it that this program can do it and others can't?

HP's failure to provide those of us with very expensive products an upgrade path to 2003 SE is the primary reason I will not be purchasing any more IPAQ's. I'll use my 5555 until it dies, then I'll find something else as I vote with my wallet on their decision. (Hope your listening HP).

There are many programs that can display landscape including Media Player, Adobe Acrobat, most picture viewers, but they all do it for just that program. Doing it system wide needs to make changes in the way the OS reacts to video calls, that are established at boot time. Sort of like changing the PCs IP address used to require a reboot, and now it doesn't (on 2K and XP). There were system architecture changes made to allow on-the-fly rotation in WM2003SE.

Note that individual programs may not work in landscape because they have hard coded the aspect as portrait, not expecting, and not willing to go through the effort, to react to rotation.

[Thaedson]

Thanks for the info. Will just have to watch for programs to switch on the fly.