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post #21 of 144
10/20/05 at 4:53pm
Can you use this, psi?

Windows API

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...?group_id=2435

"2004-09-29 Filip Navara <xnavara@volny.cz>

* include/ddk/(atm.h, batclass.h, cfg.h, cfgmgr32.h, d4drvif.h,
d4iface.h, ddkmapi.h, hidclass.h, hidpi.h, mcd.h, miniport.h,
mountdev.h, mountmgr.h, ndis.h, ndistapi.h, ndiswan.h, netpnp.h,
newdev.h, ntapi.h, ntdd8042.h, ntddbeep.h, ntddcdrm.h, ntddcdvd.h,
ntddchgr.h, ntdddisk.h, ntddkbd.h, ntddmou.h, ntddpar.h, ntddpcm.h,
ntddscsi.h, ntddser.h, ntddstor.h, ntddtape.h, ntddtdi.h,
ntddvdeo.h...." etc.
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post #22 of 144
10/20/05 at 7:59pm
k i got everything to do it, i need to get fimilar with the platform system dev kit, shouldn;t take me long as i have not had any projects comming in at work ill keep ya posted and ill host from my web server when complete
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post #23 of 144
10/20/05 at 8:13pm
Since you can dim/lighten outside of windows, it's obviously something running on the bios. But Dell's Quickset is able to detect the buttons as they're pressed and show you that little bar so the button press must be available to the OS in some way.

Good luck to you, psi. If you haven't got it working by late next week I'll have time. I think I've got a VS.net 2005 beta floating around here, too...
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post #24 of 144
10/20/05 at 8:16pm
It's great that you guys are working on this!

I don't write code, so I know very little about it, but I figured that since your power settings can change the LCD level, then that's software doing it, and there would be a way to tap into the same stuff.

Anyway, good luck!

-Doc
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post #25 of 144
10/20/05 at 8:56pm
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Originally Posted by odious_m
I'm using this. Works quite well.



^ Click pic

Link:
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/powerdimmer/

Thanks for sharing. I will try it out.
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post #26 of 144
10/20/05 at 9:37pm
This is just a fake dimmer, only visual effects lol

It doesn't lower your screen output power of the brightness, it's like a shade of black cover your screen.
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post #27 of 144
10/20/05 at 9:41pm
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Originally Posted by odious_m
This one appears to be the real deal. Costs $9.95, though. I'll give the free trial a go tonight and see how it works out.

http://www.wintensity.com/
I'm not going to pay for that lol... I just get them.

It's also a fake power dimmer lol.. The real thing is to lowered the power like pressing FN+(down arrow)
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post #28 of 144
10/20/05 at 10:41pm
lol, a little bit late there mmz.
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post #29 of 144
10/21/05 at 5:19pm
I don't know why I did this, but I updated my XPSUTILS DLL to have a new class. Check out the TestLcd.vbs for an example of how to use it, but you can set a value from 0-7 for the LCD brightness.

Tested on 9200 so far, should work on the XPS/9300 as well.

No guarantees though.

http://www.phatboyg.com/files/xpsutils.rar

Use RegSvr32.exe xpsutils.dll to register the component.
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post #30 of 144
10/21/05 at 5:33pm
wow, both test.vbs (LED thingy) and testlcd (dimmer) works om my m170.

Good start!!
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post #31 of 144
10/21/05 at 5:42pm
So now we need the vbscript to:

wait nn minutes of inactivity
get the present light value
dim the lcd

if activity
restore lcd to prev value
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post #32 of 144
10/21/05 at 5:55pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by ITZBITZ
I don't know why I did this, but I updated my XPSUTILS DLL to have a new class. Check out the TestLcd.vbs for an example of how to use it, but you can set a value from 0-7 for the LCD brightness.

Tested on 9200 so far, should work on the XPS/9300 as well.

No guarantees though.

http://www.phatboyg.com/files/xpsutils.rar

Use RegSvr32.exe xpsutils.dll to register the component.

Very cool. Can you make a .scr out of this?

-Doc
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post #33 of 144
10/21/05 at 6:07pm
Oh, you mean a screen saver?

I'll leave that to somebody else, but they can feel free to use the component to control it. I haven't figured out how to read the current value yet...
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post #34 of 144
10/21/05 at 6:11pm
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Originally Posted by ITZBITZ
Oh, you mean a screen saver?

I'll leave that to somebody else, but they can feel free to use the component to control it. I haven't figured out how to read the current value yet...

Yeah, for me that would be ideal. Just a screensaver that you set an LCD brightness level in, then just use the normal Windows screensaver timer option for the "when to do it" bit.

-Doc
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post #35 of 144
10/21/05 at 6:51pm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de..._interface.asp

is how im goign about it using C/ i think it will be more effienct then vbscript and more flexable to make either utility or scr
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post #36 of 144
10/21/05 at 9:12pm
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Originally Posted by konfucius
So now we need the vbscript to:

wait nn minutes of inactivity
get the present light value
dim the lcd

if activity
restore lcd to prev value
Or, just configure it to return to some set brightness on resume. I always use full brightness, anyway.
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post #37 of 144
10/22/05 at 12:23am
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Originally Posted by geelen
Or, just configure it to return to some set brightness on resume. I always use full brightness, anyway.
For a first release, that would probably work for the majority of users.

-Doc
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post #38 of 144
10/22/05 at 1:22am
ehh...how do you make it auto-run when idle and then close when you move the mouse?
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post #39 of 144
10/22/05 at 3:07am
That sounds suspiciously like a screensaver, lotri
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post #40 of 144
10/22/05 at 5:02am
Yes it sounds like a screensaver, but I think it would be nice to have it as a seperate program, so I could use my screensaver on the dimmed screen...
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