Re: Problem with graphics view...?

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 I don't have to toggle into full screen to get graphics view.
 All I have to do is type func wz on the command line, or
 in my case press Shift F8, while in the DOS window, and the
 screen becomes full screen Graphics view. When I want to
 leave Graphics view, I press Alt F8, and I am back to my
 text, but in full screen. If I want to get a Dos window, and
 I usually do, I have to press Alt + Enter. Now, this is not
 the problem. That is what I expect to happen, and I am satisfied
 when it does.

 But for some reason that I cannot put my finger on, of late,
 when I attempted to go into Graphics view (and this is erratic,
 in the sense that it does not always happen--I must do some
 to cause it to take place, but I and having difficulty detecting
 what it is that I do, since I don't catch myself doing anything
 different) I get the message "No screen fonts." And then the
 programme locked up. Now, the question is "why"? The screen
 fonts are clearly there. That is to say, they have not been
 deleted. And there have been no changes made to the STARTUP.INT
 file, or to any other file that might afftect this, as far as I
 can tell. Now, as I mentioned, when this happens, I can only
 exit the programme by forcing an exit by closing the dos window
 in Windows XP. When I reload the programme, I discover that
 my forced exit has not corrected anything, that is to say, I
 still do not have the access to Graphics view. So, something
 must get deleted along the line, and likely this is before I
 force exit the programme. Now, maybe if I did not force exit
 the programme, and were able to exit normally, this would not
 happen. But I have no choice not to force exit, since my cursor
 is stuck.

 I'll have to study this closely. My description of the phenomenon
 is correct, but clearly something else is happening that is not
 immediately obvious.

 Again, thank you all.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Sun, 28 May 2006, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> So, in other words, you DO toggle into fullscreen (briefly) to get a graphical
> view?? And that is what is freezing? Or, you expect the machine to
> auto-toggle into fullscreen like Carl said his machine does? And what usually
> happens then -- when you quit graphics view, it auto-toggles back to a Desktop
> window? *Normally* (when it isn't freezing), graphics view covers the whole
> screen? Just trying to understand what behavior you expect, and how present
> problem departs from that...
>
> If you didn't change any XyWrite settings, what has changed recently outside
> XyWrite? Things that might affect this: changes to OS printer or video
> settings. New hardware/software. Even a Windows Update maybe...
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