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VB Forum / Win API / February 2008Turn window upside down?
I have an old "1994" integrated flat-panel display with 486dx4-100 computer. Windows 98SE, Chips & technology video chip. I want to use it as a GPIB controller. The NI GPIB card won't run in anything newer than win98 and I've only got 16MB of ram anyway. But all the cables come out the bottom making it unweildy. If I stand it on it's head, my mechanical problems are solved. All I gotta do is fix it in software. Is there a way to turn the whole screen upside down? Ctrl-Alt-<arrow> doesn't work. No obvious options in the display drivers. I've found references to a program called screenInvert.exe that claims to do what I want, except that it cancels itself with any keypress/mousemove. But it's nowhere to be found. My primary application is written in VB6. Maybe there's a way to "upsidedown" a window? It's not worth the effort to reconstruct the whole application upside down from scratch. Ideas? thanks, mike  SignatureReturn address is VALID! > If I stand it on it's head, my mechanical problems are solved. > All I gotta do is fix it in software. You must've worked here at one time or another <g> "The power supply's dead and the cables are broken... can you fix it with software?" > Is there a way to turn the whole screen upside down? > > Ctrl-Alt-<arrow> doesn't work. Sure glad of that. > No obvious options in the > display drivers. I've found references to a program called > screenInvert.exe that claims to do what I want, except that > it cancels itself with any keypress/mousemove. But it's nowhere > to be found. It'll have to be something your video card supports. Inverting isn't enough. It needs to be rotated. > My primary application is written in VB6. Maybe there's a way > to "upsidedown" a window? It's not worth the effort to reconstruct > the whole application upside down from scratch. The easiest thing to do would definitely get those cables under control. Even if there were some kind of "super API" that rotates every pixel on your screen 180 deg, a 486 w/16 megs is going to be swamped doing nothing but rotating pixels. iirc, ATI has video drivers that support rotation. SignatureKen Halter - MS-MVP-VB - Please keep all discussions in the groups.. In Loving Memory - http://www.vbsight.com/Remembrance.htm Ken Halter <Ken_Halter@Use_Sparingly_Hotmail.com> schrieb im Beitrag <#mgsatKeIHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>... > The easiest thing to do would definitely get those cables under control. Maybe easier for him: He could nail his chair to the ceiling of his room upside down - and then work upside down himself... O.k., a bit more practical: Instead of turning his monitor upside down he could turn it by 90 degrees and then work lying on the side in front of it... There is another rather easy solution with two mirrors... :-) Signature---------------------------------------------------------------------- THORSTEN ALBERS Universität Freiburg albers@ uni-freiburg.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You could always turns the monitor upside down. Pretty simple? - Kev |I have an old "1994" integrated flat-panel display with | 486dx4-100 computer. Windows 98SE, Chips & technology video chip. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] | Ideas? | thanks, mike >You could always turns the monitor upside down. Pretty simple? > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >| Ideas? >| thanks, mike Mike, any CRT based monitor can be virtually flipped upside down (or left/right, too) by swapping the wires on the deflection yolk (that is the thing on the neck of the tube inside the monitor). This was a common trick for things like backup monitors (where left/right needed to be swapped to mimic a mirror) and for monitors that had to be mounted upside down (like yours!) >> You could always turns the monitor upside down. Pretty simple? >> [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > to be swapped to mimic a mirror) and for monitors that had to be > mounted upside down (like yours!) Cool, except it's a LCD flat-panel display integrated into the same box with the computer that needs to be stood on its head. I get the message...I'll fix it in hardware with a stand. Thanks, mike SignatureReturn address is VALID! > I get the message...I'll fix it in hardware with a stand. Aren't the newer ATI- or NVida-Driver both capable, to rotate the Screen 90°-wise (including Flipping) "per Software-Switch"? Just install the full version of Graphics-Driver-Support from their sites (for ATI this would be called the "Catalyst"- package and the NVidia-pendant is called "ForceWare"). Olaf >> I get the message...I'll fix it in hardware with a stand. > Aren't the newer ATI- or NVida-Driver both capable, [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Olaf Will this work on my Chips & technology 65545 video chip? SignatureReturn address is VALID! [Driver-based flipping] > Will this work on my > Chips & technology 65545 video chip? Arrgh, ... with high probability - no. I overlooked in your first post, that you are using an older "embedded-PC" - sorry for the noise. ;-) Olaf Schmidt <sss@online.de> schrieb im Beitrag <ObH96YVeIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>... > Arrgh, ... with high probability - no. > I overlooked in your first post, that you are using > an older "embedded-PC" - sorry for the noise. ;-) He also uses Win 98SE the support for which ATI has dismissed a long time ago - presumably in pre-catalyst times... 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