Re: irredentism and such things

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Carl

Spot on. I usually use the standalone cursor keys and PageUp, PageDn. However if I switch to the
numeric keypad I can navigate around my Thesaurus just as of old.  Thanks.

Is this type of keyboard behaviour something that can be corrected?

By the way, while I was trying to explore this further I downloaded the lastest version (0.63) of
DOSBOX the DOS emulator and I was impressed with the progress it is making. I didn't spend long
testing it, but I could run XY4 in a full window and everything I tried (except for CLIP) worked.

Paul


On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:01:45 -0500, Carl Distefano wrote:

Reply to note from Paul Breeze  Sat, 3
Dec 2005 13:38:03 GMT

> And I'd like mine to work.

In other words -- just to clarify -- you'd like it to act, operate,
function, have effect, and produce results, in an operative,
efficient, efficacious, practical, doable, and effectual sort of
way?  I can relate to that!

You say that you "can bring up the Thesaurus window but neither the
cursor keys, nor PGUP, PGDN etc do anything."  This sounds like a
keyboard control issue.  Are you using the keys on the numeric
keypad?  If so, try the standalone cursor keys, PageUp, PageDn, etc.
-- the ones to the left of the numeric pad.  On my XP machine, the
thesaurus does not respond to Ctrl-PageDn and Enter on the numeric
keypad, but does respond to the standalone Ctrl-PageDn key and the
touch-typing Enter key.  Also note that another way to look up the
thesaurus word under the cursor (or any word) is simply to type the
word.  This is a way around a non-functional Ctrl-PageDn key -- less
efficient, but still efficacious.

Worth a try.

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx