The camera flash/LED can be handy as a flashlight but I have not found a way to programatically activate without launching the camera application. The best I have come up with is a mortscript script (see below) that will launch the camera app and start the LED. You can create a shortcut to this script, assign a button (Camera butt might be good) or launch from your favorite launcher:

run "\Windows\Camera.exe",""
WaitFor "Camera",4
if wndExists "Camera"
sleep 100
Show "Camera"
MouseClick "Camera",15,255
endif



Works in portrait mode, have not tried landscape. If someone finds a binary that does this without launching camera please provide pointer.

VJCandela is a great little app that provides perfect flashlight functionality.

http://www.vijay555.com/index.php?Releases:VJCandela

That's very cool that you created your own script, though.

Just push the power button in the dark and the screen will light up. That's all you need.

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I actually posted a new thread here on this very subject before VJCandela was developed:

http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/ppc-6...lashlight.html

VJCandela is a great app; I use it everyday. If anyone's running an older version, upgrading is a good idea. The latest build has a timer to prevent damage to the LED if one forgets to turn it off.

Todd/Indy

Thanks for the tip. I have been searching for such an app and wrote the script because I could not find one. It seems that Vijay wrote a lot of cool little apps.

BTW, mortscript is handy for lots of little automations.

For example: The notes application annoys me because it always opens with notes sorted by name. Sort by date with the most recent on top is more useful to me so I wrote a little mortscript to open notes and perform the requisite screen taps.

I also wrote a little script to open appointments and add a new appointment.

Nscriptm is also handy. I wrote a script in nscriptm to tell me when I have new voice recordings. nscriptm even has a feature whereby you can schedule a scriptt o run itself again later by using the notification queue. It will even wake the device to run.

Fun stuff.