wecker@cookie.dec.com (DAVE TANSTAAFL WECKER) (09/20/86)
I wonder if this is something simple (or a standard known bug), but it appears
that after a large number of DisplayBeep(NULL) calls are done (usually lot's
of control-G's received by the terminal emulator). My screen gets stuck in
the "flashed" mode.
The only way that I've found of getting out of it is to run Preferences
(which immediately sets things back to normal). The problem seems almost
random... but is none the less VERY annoying. Any ideas?
Thanks!
dave ...{decwrl|decvax}!cookie.dec.com!wecker
P.S. I posted version 2.1 of the VT100 emulator about a week ago to
Craig (mod.amiga.sources), so it should be out soon.
P.P.S. I've also been doing alot of work with HAM display mode and posted a
bunch of images with a display program to him about 2 weeks ago
so that should be showing up soon too. (enjoy! full ray-tracing
output done on a VAX-cluster for MANY CPU hours/days).danny@convex.UUCP (09/23/86)
The only way that seems to work, and work pretty good at that, is to after calling DisplayBeep(), LoadRGB() your color list again. Shouldn't take more time and is far safer. Also, for term programs, do like Wombat (oh for source to this baby...) and Have checkmarks for the beep: Visual Beep (the routine for this was posted a while ago and is also available on a local board: Rising Star 300/1200/2400 24hrs. 214-231-1372) Talking Say stuff like: "Download Complete" "Line busy!" "No Carrier" maybe - but just maybe! - have it read what's coming in - as an option Well, hope VT100 2.1 will auto-wrap after 80 columns. It gets annoying when the cursor sticks on the edge... Nice job on 2.0 I have some sort of a copy of AmigaTerm 1.27 and VT100 does a far nicer job - especially for bold. AmigaTerm uses the SetSoftStyle() evidently which produces wider than 8 pixel letters and messes up everything. Now, how about somebody with 1.2 and the font editor staying up late to produce a nice 6 pixel width font for us all and then somebody can adapt a term to use it - then 128 columns. Of course, if somebody (Commodore got any suggestions?) could open a wider-than-640 pixel screen and make it fit in Intuition, that would be a better solution. The hardware can definately support it. Somebody want to mess with viewports? I don't know the first thing about them (yet!). Go4it people! Dan Wallach ...!innp4!convex!danny
dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (09/24/86)
You can request larger screen widths in the structure that you give OpenScreen(), it works fine. However, intuition still does now allow you to move the mouse beyond the 640 mark. I would like to be able to modify my workbench screen .. the screen width especially, so I can take advantage of the fact that my Sony (and most monitors) can display a little more than 640x200 (but just a little). Also would be nice if we could startup a CLI (and thus any program) on a custom screen. -Matt