Change touch control?

Hey every1,

Was wondering if there is any way to change the touch control commands? specifically I wanted to set the stealth mode so that it toggles between Performance battery mode and power saving.

Thanks!

 

Bump any1??

 

I believe someone is looking into the possibilities. BTW, have you noticed that when you push the stealth mode button it types a "w" when in a text box?

 

You are correct

 

Haha isn't that kind of strange? I like your avatar by the way... you must be a really good photographer or something

 

Don't ask me strangeness.. I hear noises from my HDD in lobby screen of a few games and the noise goes if I turn on stealth mode and sometimes having charecter screen go up when I turn on the sound isn't helping either.

 

Haha I saw that thread. I didn't comment on it because I have NO idea what it could be. Maybe your hard drive is going... If so you can just get a new one from DELL!

 

Well actually there isn't any real problem or issue other than noises in the game lobby lol.

@OP
Sorry for stealing your topic
Anyways Wattos was talking about having StealthMode button to do something else when touched. Maybe he can help.

 

lol nps Free bumps

Anyways... maybe since it makes a "w" it is linked to another key, so some1 can make a script to switch power plans?

hmm... Not sure? Am I the only1 here who would like to make the useless stealth mode into something useful lol

 

Yeah that's kind of what I was getting at. I would love to make the button more useful so I'm in!

 

Pretty sure the key does "fn-w"?

What you can do to find out is to try combinations of keys with w to see what it is, eventually the stealth mode screen will pop up.

You can then use some kind of key intercept program to change the function of fn-w or whatever it is to change your power scheme.

-Ash

 

It isn't FN+W lol.. But good idea I checked CTRL ALT TAB SHIFT + W no progress. It may be a very weird combination like CTRL+ALT+TAB+W lol.

 

no program should work to intercept fn+ what ever

but you guys are luky it can,t be a fn+ XXX combo as a such combo would not show the letter in text box as the fn's combos doN,t even reach window's level

also there is likely a registry key that tels what software is caled for what key pressed

 

Even how much I know you are correct, this isn't exactly true.
In some games, when I increase sound, some menus appear(in game menus). This was the case with my old DATRON too! I think the ingame problem is caused by anti-cheat system to intercept macros or something like that. However I have no idea about how stealthmode writes "w". Maybe its trying to tell us something "I win!"

 

I thought I was on to a winner when I was figuring out how to remap the <Right Alt> to be the "Application Key" on the m17x keyboard here.

I thought I could use the same thing to remap the Stealth Mode key but it didn't work. I remember seeing somewhere else that it's in the bios so amending registry doesn't affect it. (Could be wrong though). While the tool I used can capture/recognise the Stealth Mode key, it didn't seem to change anything - even after the registry had been changed.

Regardless, if you want to remap some of the other keys on the touch panel etc. you can use the same method I did via the thread linked above.

 

that's wierd i never had my FN+ W/E combo intercepted

and if i had a game that had a such anti piracy system i would likely have goteend rid of it because if it intercept my fn's cals it,s way to deep in the system

 

Say hello to "GameGuard"
Most popular MMOs have that thing. People use joystick and real hardware to make macros. To stop this, they listen keys on hardware level, which overrides key mapping and similar techniques.

 

you guys realise that wattos stealth indicator now lets you force stealth off AND load any program instead, thus converting your speedo key into any launcher you wish!

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware/463382-stealth-mode-indicator-10.html

download is on this page

 

will try ty

 

We want a way to switch between power saving/high performance though!

 

zwick, you need to be a little more creative

where there's a will there's a way.

try this batch file for size.

Code:

@echo off
if not exist "%WINDIR%\System32\Powercfg.exe" goto end
IF exist ptoggle.txt goto restore
echo now applying powersave mode
powercfg -setactive SCHEME_MAX
echo "this file is used by ptoggle and should not be deleted manually" > ptoggle.txt
goto End 

:restore
echo now applying high performance mode
powercfg -setactive SCHEME_MIN
del ptoggle.txt
:End 

it uses a command found in windows (at least my windows 7 x64) named powercfg

create an empty file named ptoggle.bat, edit it in notepad and copy the contents of the code into it. it works perfectly on my system toggling between high performance mode and power save profiles. you can use this linked with wattos app to do exactly as you wanted

note these power schemes are the default names that i found on my windows. editing them may lead to unknown results.

also i didn't know how to make a global variable which would remain on exit inside a batch file so i did it the really quick and dirty way, the program will create (and delete) a file named ptoggle.txt. this is purly so the app will toggle between running one line of code and another... in this case, running high performance or power save.

simple, dirty and effective.

i based this off my other batch file i posted which toggles my 5870 between 700/1000 and 150/100

both files work on my system, however i cannot guarrenty it will work on yours. hope it does though.

note due to the very nature of this type of toggle, the first time you run each log on may or may not be effective, however after the initial execution, the toggle should work. this is because i do not have a way to figure out which mode your system is on.

 

1. Start
2. Control Panel
3. Power Options
4. ???
5. Profit.

In a seriousness I don't know >_<

 

Hey,

you can either try the registry, (using regedit) for your global variable, or you can be a bit smarter and use the -GETACTIVESCHEME command for powercfg. This will tell you the currently active power scheme (duh?!) which you can use in your conditional statement. In general if you want to know the arguments to a properly written windows application try to type in the name of the app followed by /?. e.g.

"powercfg /?"

which will return you a description of the arguments and their params.

Hope this helps in making the best alienware batch script out there ^^

 

this script is great i just need to get the touch button to work with my av software .... again