How do i change the behavior of a button

**Injector** · 03-07-2009, 10:46 PM

let me explain myself a little better, i'm running freedom 2.1 which has a button at the bottom to dim the screen, this button is not working anymore, so i'm taking this opportunity to enhance it, i want to change the behavior of the button so when i press it it loads an executable that dims the screen http://www.whitsoftdev.com/powerdimmer/

i know about gamma control, but i don't want to do that route, let me explain why, if it's night time and i want to watch a movie i don't want the screen to be dimmed, i know gamma control can be changed from the task bar, but i don't have access to the task bar from RR

i also thought about using the system scheduler, but this lacks a lot of features (like everything from microsoft) it only schedules at a specific time and not a range like 6-pm to 6-am, and it only runs once.

**treetop777** · 03-07-2009, 11:15 PM

I's easy to change the function of the button by defining it in ExecTBL.ini like:
"Web","Audio" - now the web button will launch the audio player instead.

I'm clueless how you would activate the screen saver/dimmer unless it has a .exe; if it does, the RUN command would probably work.

**Injector** · 03-07-2009, 11:52 PM

an .scr file acts just like an executable, except that it usually has a .txt or .dat for the settings which you can configure with the window screen saver thingy

how do i find the label for that button tho? i looked in the menu.skin but i couldn't find anything close to a dimmer

**Injector** · 03-08-2009, 12:34 AM

i started reading on exectable.ini and found sample code
Bxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,"PLAY",@STOP@

i know this is to play and stop but i made me think that the button is based on x,y location and not on label, i kinda lost here because freedom is mostly flash based so i don't know if i have to decompile the swf or look for a config file.

is this correct?

**treetop777** · 03-08-2009, 10:59 AM

Which button do you want to activate the dimmer? This is the way it would work (ideally):

If you assign the "web" button to activate the dimmer, add this to exectbl.ini:

"WEB","DIMMER" (this will change the web button to run the dimmer command)

Now you define the "dimmer" command; in exectbl add:

"DIMMER", "RUN;<path to .scr>"

Somebody correct me if i'm wrong.