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Reply to note from Ed Germain about how to run XyW 3+ in a full
screen. I asked the same question a while ago. These were some suggestions from list members. Irene ..........Assume you are running Windows on a laptop or a desktop connected to a TFT screen, not a CRT monitor. In that case, the problem is neither XyWrite's, nor Windows'. It is your hardware manufacturer's. Ask him (them) how to get a full screen display of DOS text mode. Be persistent, and they'll eventually tell you. It might even be in the manual (or not). With many laptops, it's a matter of pressing a certain key combination to toggle between a small, sharp, non-display-filling DOS screen and a large, display-filling but somewhat fuzzy DOS screen. With the newer TFT flat screen displays for desktops, it usually seems to be a setup option. Wolfgang Bechstein A new machine brings me to the Gates of "progress", through which I only half-heartedly wished to enter, and now I am chilled by a Soft Microwind in the Millennium Edition, to wit: XyWrite 3+ (ver. 3.57) will not load to a full screen. Yes, I have tweaked property sheets of the program and a desktop shortcut - to no avail. Any ideas? Alan Kerr assume you're trying to run it on Windows 2000? I've had the same problem, and no amount of tweaking seems to get it right. However, with UltraVision (which runs just fine on W2K and with many current video chips) you can have a nice full screen. Tom Hawley tjh@xxxxxxxxxxx Alan, I have gotten full screen in win95, 98 and win2000 by adjusting the screen length (SL=) in the default.prn and all other prn files I use that set the defaults to a longer screen length. It has to be just right or you won't be able to scroll to the bottom of the screen. I don't remember the settings I used in win95 except I used the largest true type font it offers under the desktop icon properties. In win98 I use 13x22 true type font and screen length of 30. In win2000 set the properties using the little icon at the top left corner of xywrite run in a window (not full screen). (The font properties if you right click on the desktop icon have no effect.) I have my win2000 font set to Ludica console 24pt. Layout is set to window size 73 wide, 28 height (buffer will automatically adjust). Screen position - uncheck let system position screen and set left to -4 and top to 1. Set the default screen length in the xywrite default.prn file to 30 (or whatever .prn files you use to set the defaults. In all three - win95, 98 and win2000 you won't be able to see the stuff at the far right end of the command line (such as whether or not you are on insert) without scrolling over with the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen - a small price to pay for getting a full screen. And because of the large font if you use really long line lengths you may have problems seeing the end of the line with out scrolling over, but normal line length is okay. win98 works better than win95 because it has one bigger size font to use. The real key to the whole solution is setting the xywrite screen length default. Assume that ME would work much like 98. Hope this helps. Gene Trudeau Alan. assume you are using a laptop - have you set your screen to expanded mode? Mine has to be set that way. Gene Let me guess: this is on a laptop or possibly a desktop computer with a flat TFT screen, right? If so, the problem you are having has nothing to do with XyWrite or even the DOS settings of Windows per se. It is a _hardware_ thing, caused by the fact that your screen (probably a TFT screen with a resolution of 1024x768 or higher) unlike CRT monitors is hardwired for the higher resolution, causing the 640x480 of regular DOS to take up only a portion of the screen, whereas the Windows desktop and Windows programs use the full 1024x768 or whatever resolution. The way around this is again _in hardware_. Most laptops have a hotkey combination that lets you toggle DOS into a (simulated) full-screen mode. On my Compaq, this is Fn-T where Fn is the special function key at the bottom left of the keyboard. Look in your computer manual, or ask the manufacturer how to get an edge-to-edge DOS screen. Some TFT monitor/video card combinations are already set up that way, but some aren't. I think that's what you're up against, but of course I could be wrong. Wolfgang Bechstein ----- Original Message ----- Hello........ When I run Editor.exe in a maximized DOS window, XyWrite loads in only the top half the screen. How do I get it to load full-screen? A subsidiary question involves the DOS window--and here I haven't done my homework. But in Windows 2000, I open a full-screen DOS window at 1024x768 pixels and run Editor.exe. When XyWrite loads it shrinks the window to the normal maximized size (about 3/5ths of the screen). It has been years and years since I've written macros or changed Startup.Int. And my manual is also in some box somewhere (there are dozens and dozens and dozens of boxes I can't open until I get the study built) Can anyone remind me of which commands set the screen size in Start.Int?. Or is there some other way to manage full-screen operation? So if anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate them. Oh, and might 4.0 work better on a windows machine; do people prefer it? ??? I know I was disappointed with it when it first came out, but that is several historical periods of computer-time ago. ........ --Ed Germain egermain@xxxxxxxxx
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