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From: jcf3703@ttardis.UUCP (chap flack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 43 lines in Desqview 2.2 ? (kinda long)
Keywords: DESQview video modes 43 line
Message-ID: <2298@ttardis.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 89 06:34:03 GMT
Organization: DynaLogic Engineering
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In article <8000056@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, jng@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Can I get 43 lines in Desqview 2.2? When I goto the video option,
>choose the 43 mode, I still get only 25 lines.
>--Joseph Ng--
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>jng@cs.uiuc.edu or jng%p.cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet

Just for the heck of it, I'll describe a related problem I've
encountered, which may not directly apply to your situation in the
details I've omitted, but may suggest some possibilities....

I'm running DESQview 2.25 under MS-DOS 3.3 with VGA.  QuickC and
Microsoft Editor (both bundled with MS's C 5.1 package) both have
options allowing you to specify a denser display than the standard
25 lines.  If the display is in the standard mode, they'll flip it
to squinty mode for you and flip it back when you're done.  Nice.

Now run the same programs under DESQview.  Start in standard 25-line
mode.  Open one of these programs--it changes the video mode.  So far
so good--DV is perfectly happy to show everything else in the new mode.
However, it still chops the editor window to the size in the .DVP: 25
lines.

Just edit the .DVP, you say?  Ah, yes.  But then, both QuickC and Microsoft
Editor apparently are fooled into thinking that the display is already in
squinty mode, so they don't bother to set it!  Now  you have 43-line windows
on a 25-line screen.

Sure, you can fix that by changing the video mode manually in the
Rearrange: Video Modes option, or by deciding you *always* want to run in
that mode.  But it shouldn't have to be.  When I open Ventura, it puts me
in a graphic mode; DESQview happily obliges by displaying all other windows
in that mode, but when I exit Ventura, I pop back to (faster) text mode.
I'd like the same thing to happen here; I can't because Microsoft made these
utilities TOO smart.  *sigh*

This got long.  Sorry.  If it doesn't address your problem exactly, maybe it
will be of help to someone else....
-Chap
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