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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.