Re: Re Tame 5.7 etc

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 10:36 AM 2/25/2008, Paul Breeze wrote:
> You were correct about Alt-Enter causing problems with Tame 5.1 etc.
> This appears to cause considerable confusion and must be responsible
> for my additional windows. I can use the menu option to switch to
> full screen and then I do not see the same behaviour.

Experiment with these in the .tam file:
/TameConsole WinKeys =   -#40 ; Alt-Enter will enter hardware full
screen - uncomment to use Tame full screen

/TameConsole WinKeys =  -#8000 ; Do not use cursor keys to mark text

/TameConsole WinKeys = +#10000 ; Alt-F4 can exit the app
> I have had to move to Tame 6.0, however, because of a standby
> problem with Tame 5.1 rc7 ( it shuts down with errors if I try to
> enter standby) and other problems with rc8 and rc9 which appear to
> try to lauch GoXY (I presume this is also some subroutine in Tame).

You mean windows standby?
> With Tame 6.0, so long as I set the correct number of screen lines I
> require in the desktop shortcut and then if I am using more than 25
> lines, I add three lines by using D SL=** then I seems to operate
> very consistently. I have needed no other configuration.
> The only problem I now have is again entering standby. On
> re-emerging,  I find that the cursor will no longer scroll and if I
> have the Tame status bar activated then the little green/red
> activity bar in the left shoots to the top of the screen. I have to
> shut down and reload to get it to work satisfactorily again. Are
> you able to check if you experience similar behaviour? I have
> contacted David Thomas but he could not repeat it with his
> setup (I'm running Windows 2000, but you have XP, I think.)

This doesn't happen on the three XP setups I use.

Michael Norman