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"Rotate Screen 90 degrees" feature idea.

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skate6566:
I notice that there is a "upside screen" option in the settings.

I think that having a "rotate 90 degrees" setting would be nice, too. Especially on players like the Sansa, because then videos could be shown in more of a "widescreen" environment. Now, this would probably call for additional themes because the WPS or whatever would have to be longer, but I think it could be done.

Also, it would make the players look cooler when you can operate them on their side :D

LambdaCalculus:
Um, the Sansa and Gigabeat already rotate the screen 90 degrees for videos.

Multiplex:
I'm not dismissing the suggestion but I wanted to point out a some potential issues;
a) upside down maintains system constants like height and width of the display, a 1/4 turn would swap them so they would no longer be 'constants'
b) on some, if not all the players, the upside down seting is done by just setting a flag in the LCD controller
c) the way images are stored and managed internally is (was last time I looked) optimised for efficient transfer to the display - a 1/4 turn may upset this

It's a nice idea but may be a HUGE piece of work...

Chronon:
There used to be a patch for the Gigabeats that rotated the output to landscape (except for in Mpegplayer and some other plugins).  So that at least provides a proof of concept.  Read about the objections to that instance of this idea at FS#6688.

FirleFanz:
with a rotating fingertip on the touchscreen, maybe

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180 deg from left to right or right to left, maybe

is there a touchscreen lib ever?
               
           

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