Re: Testing printing with vDosXy 500

["Carl Distefano" cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from J R FOX  Sun, 25 Feb 2018
17:21:44 +0000 (UTC)

Jordan,

> I'll have to see if the SETCFG method is a lasting or a temporary
> change.

No, SETCFG is for changing settings on the fly. For a change that
persists from session to session, you need to edit config.txt:

WINDOW = n

where n is a number between 5 and 100, inclusive.

> If folks care to post their preferred color assignments for these,
> I'm game to try some out.

Ah, color schemes. Now there's a time sink if ever there was one! I'm
finicky about my screen colors, so when a new environment, such as
vDosPlus, presents itself, I work compuslively to get my two preferred
schemes just right. I'm happy to share these, but color is a subjective
thing so, as Kari said, there's really no avoiding experimenting for
yourself. Just tweaking what you have may be enough. If you want to go
whole-hog and build a pleasing color scheme from scratch, I suggest
starting with default colors in both XyWrite and DOS and playing with
each screen element from there. To get default colors, disable or
delete any existing COLORS= setting in config.txt. In XyWrite (speaking
particularly of Xy4 here), you can load the attached DEFAULT4.DSP **on
top of** your normal SETTINGS.DFL and printer file -- then play with
these settings until you get the colors you want. Finally, probably the
most flexible way to set screen colors is with a tool such as Ralph
Smith's VGA Palette Tool ("VPT") (freeware; download here:
http://xywwweb.ammaze.net/dls/VPT301.ZIP). The idea there is to start
with default colors in vDosPlus and XyWrite, set the color scheme with
VPT, then tweak the color settings in XyWrite. A nice feature of VPT is
that you can save each color scheme to a file and load it at will. It's
all laid out in the VPT manual (VPT.MAN).

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx

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