Thursday, April 20, 2006

Tips: ClearType in both Landscape and Portrait mode.

Maybe you noticed that even though you have ClearType enabled, it wont work when you switch to Landscape mode. You can change this behaviour by changing a setting in the registry using a good registry editor. Remember, improper manipulation of the registry can cause your device to become instable. So be extremely careful.

Before you proceed, check that ClearType is enabled by going to Start Settings System Screen ClearType Enable ClearType.

Open the registry editor and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GDI\ClearTypeSettings. Change the value the value for OffOnRotation from 1 to 0. Make sure that Dec is set as the base model.

Soft reset your device and see the result by switching to Landscape mode.

2 comments:

Tam Hanna said...

Hi Linley,
great to know that Microsoft has such an option left in Windows Mobile.

However, I think that ClearType CANNOT work in landscape mode due to the display's physical properties.

Could you maybe tell me if it works well on your box?

Best regards from Vienna
Tam Hanna

Linley Meslier said...

hello Tam,

Thank you for your comments. I confirm it works on my eten M500 pocket PC.