Lets define exactly what it is that wants to be done before anybody goes off and implements things.
For one saying "just do exactly the same thing as the SB3" is not a good suggestion, the SB3 didn't have a touch screen, its hard to use the touch screen if you can't see the buttons. I know its obvious, but its things like that which can mess up such a project if the spec doesn't include them. Whats obvious to the people generating the spec may not be obvious to the implementer. Its important that a spec really cover everything so there is no ambiguity. I'll start this off by going over a few things as they are now as a starting point for how you all would like it to be different. Currently there are three "general" brightness mechanisms, plus sreensavers which can be used in some way to affect brightness. There are two overall brightness schemes: manual and auto. In manual you get a slider which sets the brightness for everything. It will not go all the way to completely black. If it did it would be difficult to ever get it out of black since you could not see the screen to change the brightness. I personally think this is a good idea, just imagine the forum posts from people who think their Touch is broken because they can't see anything. In auto mode an ambient sensor is used to adjust the screen based on the room light level. There is an adjustment for minimum brightness when the room is dark. There is an override on top of these: if the screen is up near the top of its brightness range it will dim slightly after a certain number of seconds of inactivity, this is to increase the longevity of the LED backlights. They have a phosphor coating to give a white light and that coating looses efficiency with use. Then there are screen savers. One of the options is "screen off" which does turn the backlight off. The touchscreen is still working. There is no direct brightness control on the IR remote, actually adding a new button would get kind of expensive and most people do not have the skills to do so. In order to have a "brightness button" you would have to usurp the function of one of the existing buttons. This CAN be done but be careful which one you choose. For the people that want a black screen, what is wrong with the screen off screensaver? If you have all the screensavers set to screen off the screen turns off a few seconds after you stop touching the screen. Using Ipeng or WebUI does not turn it back on. It only comes back on when you touch the screen or use the IR remote. I can't imagine anyone NOT wanting the screen to come back on when you touch the screen, so is the problem the IR remote? You want to push buttons on the IR remote and NOT have anything visible on the screen? If this is true do you want some button pushes on the screen to be visible and some not? For example pushing browse on the remote without turning the screen on seems a little useless. OK, so that is how it works now, what specifically do you want to change? John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77836 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
