Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:29:19 -0600 From: "phillip ramirez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Screen off/Keyboard keys on for GPS?
there is a program out there to use single keys or mopuse button with the screen closed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [LIB] Screen off/Keyboard keys on for GPS? > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:10:47 -0500 > From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Screen off/Keyboard keys on for GPS? > > > Well... I've joined the Libretto GPS group! Got a Garmin eMap off EBay > for > > $116 + $8 shipping and an aftermarket combo power/data cable for $20 + $5 > > shipping. I had Delorme Street Atlas... so I took a spin around the city > > the other day and listened to SA give me instructions (a couple 'turn > right' > > instructions when it was marked to turn left on the map... but what the > > heck) on the route. > > > Fun. You will notice that it gives the NEXT instruction just after you > completed this one. So it may seem ti be contradicting itself when it is > just chatty before and after a turn. Which may not be a trun at all, just a > name change on a road! > > > > > Got lost a couple times, and found it really great to be able to look at > my > > position on a map, see the marked route, the marked track of where I > > strayed, and be able to see the exact streets I need to take to get back > on > > track. Too cool! Now I want to head out tgravelling again! > > > > I found the Ins key was great to get an updated voice prompt on what the > > next turn was. And I thought it'd be really nice if I could hit a key and > > get the screen to blank out, and another to wake it up. Is this anything > > that has been done, or may be at all possible? I can always flip the lid > > closed, and then flip it up again when I want to hit the Ins key... but > it'd > > be nice if I could get the screen to blank out by hitting a key. > > > > Why do you want this? Glare at night? I would agree, and your question leads > me to a solution I intend to use myself! > > Best I can suggest is make a shortcut on your desktop to "Blank Screen.scr" > WITH the quotes, or browse to the file Blank Screen.scr in windows. Then > modify the shortcut properites with a hotkey like Ctrl+Alt+B to activate it > now. Then somehow get Windows to fully blank ( power off ) your screen. I > think it does if Windows is in charge of the monitor but not if the hairy > light bulb is... > > Libretto seems to have hidden Fn key numeric keypad but lacks the other > Toshiba hardware control features like Fn+F5 to toggle internal/external > monitor. > > By the way. Street Atlas is hotkey Ctrl+Alt+S in my machine! > > Pres Waterman > traveling... much delay in catching messages, > sorry if I reply and others have already > and I lost many many emails in a crash also! > > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives > http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
