Could the Shift or Ctrl key be somehow also involved, thru a sticky
key of some sort, either mechanically or via the OS? It's a guess
only --
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.
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Paul Lagasse mailto:pglagasse@xxxxxxxx
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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
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.
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?
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