Msg: Re: New Windows installer for vDos-lfn

Hi Kari,

First of all, I am very happy to know that both the creation of config.txt and autoexec.txt by the installer and solution for the window size issue work for you now.

Regarding the PgUp or PgDn key, may I ask when the behavior as you described occurs? I tried PgUp/PgDn for scrolling in QBASIC for example, and they seem to work fine with either KEYMODE=1 or KEYMODE=2. I also tried to redefine PgUp and PgDn keys (e.g. to "+" and "-" respectively) in XyWrite 3, and the customized keys seem to work fine too. It will be better if you can describe the issue you had encountered more clearly. Thanks!

Wengier

On Saturday, May 14, 2016 7:20 AM, Kari Eveli wrote:

Hi Wengier,

I retried the installer, and now it works ok creating config.txt and
autoexec.txt, even in a new folder. Great!

Evensize=off directive solved the window size issue. It also seems that
the window dragging issue goes away or is at least much less with this
setting. As this affects only external font files, using a external font
is a prerequisite of this setting.

In vDosLFN, a pressed-down PgUp or PgDn sometimes hangs and does not
produce repeats. In vDosXy, this behavior is absent. Keyboard repeats
work very well. As this is used for scrolling, it can be a bit annoying.

James Woolley said:
Kari also mentioned the 'XMEM = +1 XMS' directive, which I didn't know
about; it's a big help with Nota Bene 3.0. Btw, I'm using the antique
screen dimensions of 25x80.

It is in the manual.txt of vDosXy 1.10:
"Xy3 and NB3 users can use 'XMEM = +1 XMS' setting to gain the
additional 64 KB of conventional memory
Note that the + option can only be used with Xy3 and NB3 text mode, NO
GRAPHICS Xy4 MODE ALLOWED!"

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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14.5.2016, 2:09, Wengier W (Redacted sender wengierwu for DMARC) wrote:
> I am glad to let you all know that I have found the cause of the
> window size issue. As we know vDos-lfn is based on the latest version
> of vDos, while vDosXy was based on an old version of vDos. Unlike that
> old version of vDos, in the latest vDos version the font size
> selection of external TTF files are in even point sizes and rounded
> pixel dimensions, which was mentioned as a major change in vDos
> 2015.11.01 (see the last change in the page
> https://www.vdos.info/download.html). As a result, the font size was
> rounded down, so the window height becomes shorter. Since vDosXy was
> not based on the latest vDos, it did not have this behavior. However,
> I have realized that many of you may in fact prefer the older
> behavior, so I decided to add an option to vDos-lfn's config.txt so
> that both behaviors can be achieved in vDos-lfn simply by changing the
> setting in config.txt. By default, vDos-lfn uses the same behavior as
> in the latest vDos, but you can now set "EVENSIZE=OFF" in config.txt
> if you want the old behavior instead as in vDosXy. As usual I have
> updated the vDos-lfn binary and installer. Please download the new
> version.
>
> Wengier