Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/24/07:33:06
Vic wrote:
>
> Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> >
> > Count Floyd writes:
> > >The Demo.exe & Grabber don't open a "DOSBOX" (MS-DOS Textmode
> > > Window)
> > >in the beginning while Example 15 does...
> >
> > I'm afraid I still don't follow you: Win95 _always_ starts DOS apps > > up
> > in a text mode window, and the Allegro programs later switch into
> > graphics mode. There's no function to open up a "DOSBOX", it's
> >something
> > that Win95 does without the program having any involvement in it...
> Well, I dunno who said that in the first place, but:
> The graphics programs DO open a window! but shortly after that window
> is
> closed because the program switches to graphics mode.
> On the other hand example 15 needs a parameter on the command line. If
> you don't provide it , the program will say "you need to invoke me
> like this blah blah" or whatever it says then will exit. You will now
> have a inactive dos box on the screen.
> What this has to do with a possible bug in allegro, I dunno.
> --
ok, people other than shawn on this thread, you have your win 95
terminology totally mixed up. i suggest you fool around with the
properties of some dos applications on your hard drive to fully
understand how win 95 invokes dos apps etc. shawn said it once, but it
seems it wasn't enough: allegro has nothing to do with how any dos
program starts up under win 95. if you type ex15 mysha.pcx in a windowed
dos box, win 95 will switch that to full screen so that it will run
properly. if you double click on the name in explorer, you will not have
passed the name of the picture to display, and hence ex15 will not run.
it will display
Usage: 'ex15 filename.[bmp|lbm|pcx|tga]'
and terminate. now, you may or may not see this message depending on the
default properties of dos windows in your system. _YOU_ set those
properties. hence, either the window will close after execution and you
will miss that message, or it will become inactive (with the message
ex15.exe - finished in the title bar.)
if i go on any more, i'll write a couple of win 95 for dummies books so
i should stop.
i would suggest terminating this thread as it is unnecessarily polluting
djgpp related programming questions with mundane win 95 user interface
issues.
--
Sinan
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