Adjust brightness with camera button?

[Zaft1]

Is there a way to change the screen's brightness with the camera button? It is impossible to see the screen outdoors and randomly pressing the screen to change it's brightness is a major headache .

[shaggylive]

yea, I've been wanting something like this for my apache/mogul.

I think it could be done with something like mortscript and a shortcut, but I'm not sure and it's sitting tword the bottom of my priority list.
basically a sunlight setting so while on battery it uses your "standard" preference, but just hit a button to take to full bright only when in direct sunlight.

[MrGoodtunes]

My solution is to put a backlight shortcut (namely, \Windows\Backlight.exe) on the right softkey of my Today Screen. That way, without being able to see the screen at all (which is often the case when outdoors here in South Florida), I can press the right (red) hardware button (takes me home), tap screen area just above it, and then a few right navigation presses brings up the brightness. Works for me just fine. Only need my left thumb, holding phone in left hand. I have the new leaked Sprint ROM, so used the new version of KeySwop by Vicsoft, freeware, now compatible with WM v6.1, here:
http://mobile-sg.com/software/?p=KeySwop&platform=ppc

Hope this helps, MrG

[Zaft1]

Nice, checked it out and will stick with it until a hard key method is available. Thanks

[shaggylive]

ok, I don't know why I didn't mess with this earlier, but the script was easy.

you need mortscript 4.1 to run

put the script file in "\windows\start menu\programs" and then you will be able to assign it to a button.

SetBacklight( <battery>,<external> )

I set mine to go full bright for 1min then go back to my preferred setting.

SetBacklight( 10, 10 )
Sleep( 60000 )
SetBacklight( 5, 10 )

[acarnut]

Originally Posted by Zaft1

Nice, checked it out and will stick with it until a hard key method is available. Thanks

I use AEBPlus (the free version) and have it reassign the camera button thusly:

- one click = brightness up
- double click = toggle rotate screen right
- triple click = start camera

in that order because

- I drive a convertible, and need the brightness up quick
- I only want to rotate rught (not left, random, or dictated by the software)
- I guess there is the rare occasion I may want to attempt using the crappy camera

I use SPB Pocket Plus V3 to provide the discrete commands for brightness up and rotate, but if you search there are ways of manually creating the required shorcuts.