Setting back light adjust to a hard button

[jtrag]

Sweet, I'm gonna check this out then. Might come in handy to brighten up the screen for a moment if I need to.

[bluecdxx]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I did what you suggested and when the back light is set low the button works great to make it suddenly bright but when I push the button again in hopes of dimming the back light I get "Script aleardy running Script seems to be running. Cancel old script?". Regardless if I cancel or don't cancel script the back light with stat at its brightest. Any ideas?

[andason]

it is timed to go back to the original settings in 50 seconds.. you can open the first zip file contents with notepad on your pc and tweak the sleep to what is desired

#Sleep for a little while
Sleep(50000)

or delete all of these lines and it will stay at max

#Sleep for a little while
Sleep(50000)


#Turn the lights back to original
RegWriteDword ("HKCU", "ControlPanel\Backlight", "Brightness", Brightness)
RegWriteDword ("HKCU", "ControlPanel\Backlight", "ACBrightness", ACBrightness)

i'll tweak some more on it later to try to set it so pressing the button again goes back to normal.

[andason]

Here is another method using mortscript to adjust the backlight. Replace the original backlight adjustment script with this one and tie it to a button.

[LoneSnark]

I wrote an application you can bind with a button to toggle brightness between 10 and 1 (my two favorite settings) each time you press it. Regretfully it requires PocketC runtime. Let me know if anyone is interested. I am considering making it toggle between three settings (1, 5, 10), which would be simple but I question the utility of it.

I recognize a mortscript would probably be simpler and run better, but I don't have it installed, so there.

[jmorton10]

AE Button Plus will do what you want.

~John