Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!

[PollyK3@xxxxxxxx]

Hi, Robert -

I found the culprit: a line in my printer file that called for a default SL of 43. I changed it and the screen lengths in properties and default all to 28, and I'm in business. Thanks so much. (To answer your question, I had been running under Win 98 - and had 25 lines of display despite the same df in my printer file - before getting a  new pc that has xp.)

Now, if you can clear up one other mystery: I cannot get both default and properties to save my request for a large cursor. Default saves it as a large cursor each time, and so does Properties, but when I reopen Properties again, the cursor is set on small. So where am I screwing up?

Thanks,
Polly

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Date:  6/21/2003 9:44:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time 
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** Reply to message from PollyK3@xxxxxxxx on Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:16:38 EDT


>Also, when you say to check "XyWrite Default SL (Screen 
>Length)=25. It should default to
>that anyway," I assume you mean to check the default in the properties box I 
>get when right clicking the upper lefthand corner, not some file in Xy.

No! I mean the Xy3+ variable (aka "default") SL. If you did what I suggested
with the Properties, then the situation is that your desktop window is only 25
lines long, but XyWrite is delivering more lines than that, i.e. it considers a
"screenful" of lines to be more than 25. To check whether SL is your problem
(I suspect it is), command on the CMline "default sl=25", and see if that fixes
the problem.

Things would be simpler if you would explain what your setup was before you
switched over to XP -- how many lines were displayed? If you would *count*
exactly how many lines are not displayed at the bottom of the screen (how many
lines are "skipped" if you PageDown). E.g.: make a dummy file with NotePad,
and just number the lines like this:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
etc etc up to say more than 50 lines -- carriage return at end of each line. 
Then CAll the file in Xy3+, and you should see line 1 at top, and line 22 at
bottom. Now PageDown. What line is at top? If 23, then SL=25 lines per
screen. If 28, you're set for 30 lines/screen. If 48 then SL=50 lines/screen.
And so forth. Gotta subtract 3 lines because you have command, prompt, and
ruler lines at the top, so 25 line screen=22 lines of text.). Don't say "I'd
actually like more, but I can live with 25" -- say what you *want*! Then you
stand a fair chance of *getting* what you want.

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Robert Holmgren
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