Re: Problem with graphics view...?

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "M.W. Poirier"  on Sun, 28
May 2006 13:04:35 -0400 (EDT)


> 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.

OK -- that's very clear. It was not at all obvious to me that the system
auto-magically toggles into full screen for Graphics view! In the past, when
I've tried to display Graphics while working in a window, my window would
display the current page in Graphics, but the window would completely freeze --
I can't remember whether I could recover or not (I think not) -- because I
"knew" it wouldn't work, I haven't tried to do it for years, and last time was
probably under OS/2. Anyway, I just tried it on Win2K, and by god you're
right: it auto-toggles into full screen. First time I've ever seen that.
Live and learn.

That's where I would start debugging. What happens if you *manually* move into
full screen *first* (Alt-Enter), and then you Shift-F8 (func WZ)? Still
freezes? If this seems to work reliably, we can easily devise a way to
automate it. What's the typical value of VA$M+6 on your machine (command VA/NV
$M+6)?

You say "it does not always happen". Does it still happen, occasionally, even
with your rewritten XY4 directory? If so, I would suspect some depletion of
resources, likely XyWrite memory -- OOM. After all, it is a major task to
redisplay the screen using the Speedos; and the more formatting or fonts in the
file, the larger the task. Could the complexity of the files you're displaying
be a factor?

Manuel is right: if all you're doing is looking at the formatted file, and
you're not actively editing while in Graphics view, POSTGHOST offers an
incomparably higher-quality preview. You need to have U2 installed, as well as
Ghostscript and GSView (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html). Set two
XyWWWeb.REGistry variables, e.g.:
 Ghostscript_EXE_Win32=F:\GS\GS8.53\BIN\GSWIN32C.EXE
 GSView_Win32=F:\GS\GSVIEW\GSVIEW32.EXE
Put POSTGHST.PRN (http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/postghst.zip) in your PP: list
in DFL, relaunch XyWrite, and use the SETP command to make POSTGHST.PRN active.
Then, with file to preview in the current window, command:
 POSTGHOST
Can be put on a key:
 nn=XHJM2,.,P,o,s,t,G,h,o,s,t,Q2

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Robert Holmgren
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