Re: using oed

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Robert

Thanks for your reply to my queries. I'm running XY4 under Windows 2k and I have increased the
intensities of my screen font (I use a green font on a black background) in a dos window using the
color settings panel. This appears to stick in full screen too, which is normally how I operate.

I now find that the behaviour is more curious that I first thought. If I invoke oed from a full
screen session and then return to XY4, the font is dimmed. I now see that the font has changed too.
 I use a sanserif font loaded with vga.com but after using oed in this way, the font has reverted to
the default windows font. I wonder if the intensity is reverting to the default setting too.

If I switch to a window first, then invoke oed and then return to the window there is no change in
intensity. Furthermore having done this I appear to be able to invoke oed from full screen with out
any change in intensity. However as soon as I switch back to full screen, the font changes to the
default windows font as before.

Paul

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 03:04:42 -0500, Robert Holmgren wrote:
** Reply to message from Paul Breeze  on Thu, 10
Nov 2005 16:02:17 GMT


> when I return to XY4, the screen colour intensity had fallen and I can only
> recover my usual intensity by quitting and reloading XY4

I can't reproduce that -- never seen anything like it, in six years of daily
use on many different computers.  My color intensity is constant.  In a
Window/Fullscreen?  Are you setting colors with an external utility?  Give me
an example -- you mean BOld loses intensity, or the background color changes,
or what?  Operating system?

> in XYWin under similar circumstances, OED is invoked and the word definition
> found but then I am immediately returned to XYWin and I have to toggle back to
> OED to read the definition

Fixed in v119 (imminent).  You need to get the latest OEDXP.EXE from XyWWWeb.
The meaning of the "OEDWait" REGistry variable has changed:  it now represents
the time required to shell to DOS in XyWin or NBWin, issue a command, and then
return focus to XyWin or NBWin (set this to zero for Xy4).  Only after that
happens is the OED opened -- and focus then *stays* with the OED.  A major
difference between Xy4 and the Win versions of XyWrite|NB is that shelling to
DOS in the Win versions does not take place in XyWrite's own session, but
rather in a child of the session.  When you exit a DOS shell in XyWin|NBWin,
you do not necessarily return to Editor (even though Editor is paused until the
child terminates -- it's the equivalent of "CMD /C START /WAIT").  It's
complicated; but it is expected behavior, and explains what you observed.

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Robert Holmgren
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