Re: vDos bug report

["John Paines" dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "vf200@xxxxxxxx" for DMARC)]

The window rotation you're describing is what's happening here, though I haven't been able to find any key combination which reliable reproduces it.  I suspect it's an unintended key combination -- a slip of the fingers -- in full screen mode, and involving the alt key, the a cursor key, and who knows what else.

Once it starts, the alt+arrow keys will flip the window accordingly.  Most of the time, righting the window correctly with the up arrow and moving out of full screen is enough to fix it, but today I had to force a shut-down and restart.
 
 
 
 
  From: Paul Lagasse 
 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
 Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 5:57 PM
 Subject: Re: vDos bug report
  
 


  It may not be Xy3 or Xy4 or vDos issue. Some websites suggest that
  ctrl or shift plus alt and an arrow key can rotate the screen in Win
  7 and 8. Search on "Keyboard shortcuts to rotate the screen in Win 7
  and Win 8."

 

  I have an old vDos (not the version for Xy, haven't tried that out
  yet) in my Win 7 setup and Ctrl-Alt-Arrowkey produces the following
  results:

 

  Left arrow key: Rotate screen to 90 degrees left from normal (so
  that the right side of the normal screen orientation is up)

  Right: 90 right from normal (left side of the normal screen is up)

  Down: Rotate upside down

  Up: Return to normal position

 

  This happens when running vDos fullscreen; haven't tried it out with
  windowed vDos. It sounds like you might be getting a version of
  this; if so, it might well be an expected a Windows behavior, not a
  vDos bug.
  I have to include the Ctrl key in the combination to get this
  effect, and Shift-Alt-Arrowkey has no effect on my Win 7 machine (a
  Dell desktop). You might be invoking the process some other way?

 

  Paul Lagasse

 

  


On 02/11/2015 05:31 PM, John Paines
   (Redacted sender mailto:vf200@xxxxxxxx for DMARC)
   wrote:

  
  

   

    
It occurs when I'm
      using the numeric pad (numlock off) and the alt key,
      although once it starts, I can make the window do flips and
      somersaults with the the 2nd set of cursor keys as well.
       These are my [custom] keyboard assignments, with alt:
    


     
    
72=NI,CU←
    
73=NI,PF←
    
74=NI,SM←
    
75=NI,PW←
    
76=NI,NP←
    
77=NI,NW←
    
78=NI,SU←
    


    
    
I can't
     reproduce it at will, though it's happened a few times
     already.  If I had to guess, I'd say it's alt+pgup which gets
     it going, and which I've mapped to be the "previous page"
     function.  But can't say for sure.
    

     

      

       
  From:
        Carl Distefano mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx

        To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
       

        Sent:
        Wednesday, February 11, 2015 4:56 PM

        Subject:
        Re: vDos bug report

        
      


       How bizarre. I can't reproduce it here with Xy4. I'll try
       with Xy3 at 

       home tonight.

      

       John, what are the Xy keyboard file assignments for the
       keys that 

       cause this weird behavior?

      

      

       --

       Carl Distefano

       mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx