Re: ersatz autosave...? (Speaking of...)

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

REply to message from Brian Henderson  on
Mon, 7 Mar 2005 07:44:20 -0800

≪the navigation band (I have no idea what it's really called - it's the
thing that obscures the cmd-line) has now appeared, and the keyboard is
focused on it≫

I'm assuming you mean the Action Bar: the thing with "File Edit View
Format" etc on it that gives you drop-down menus if you want them,
normally invoked (out of the box) by F10. Now there there are two
additional questions: 1) are you talking about switching from Windowed
mode (i.e., the XyWrite session is not occupying the full area of the
screen, and it does have the typical Windows Title bar across the top) to
full screen using Alt Tab? About that I cannot say, because I cannot do
it. If I'm in windowed mode, the only way to get full screen is either to
click on the four-way arrow or to close down, right-click on the shortcut
on the desktop, and change the properties sheet to full screen. 2) Or are
you talking about switching from full-screen mode to minimized with
Alt-Tab? That works here, both from Windowed and full screen, but--and
here things get weird, but I think I know why. The first time I did it,
with a file open in the session, nothing happened to the command line: I
hit alt-tab, the window minimized, and when I clicked on the toolbar icon
it popped up again just as it was. BUT when I did it with no file open in
the window, the Action bar popped up, even before the window minimized.
Recall that the Alt key alone is another out-of-box method for invoking
the Action Bar. It would seem that with a file up in RAM, things slow
down enough for XyWrite not to trap that Alt key and execute its command
(at least on a 1.2 GHz machine; yours may well be faster and never get
slow enough). But without a file up, it does trap it. The solution would
seem to be to remove the GT SH call from key 56 in Table Alt. (F10 also
does it, so you'd still have a way to invoke the Action Bar if you want
it.)

Display type (type VA/NV dt on the command line to see what yours is) is
discussed in the Customization Guide, p.20. Graphics, or WYSIWYG, mode
does indeed let you see what your page will look like: fonts, layout,
pagebreaks, headers and footers, footnotes; it can, however, run amok if
you've got a large file, and it can give you a heart attack because it
blanks the screen while switching--sometimes, esp. on an LCD, for an
apprciable few seconds.

Patricia M. Godfrey
PMGodfrey@xxxxxxxx