From:	"Alexei A. Frounze" <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	RHIDE problem with GFX modes is fakely SOLVED
Date:	Thu, 11 May 2000 01:37:28 +0400
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Hi!

Recently I have posted a message about OS crash during quitting from RHIDE
back to Win95.

Some details.

I use RHIDE 1.4.7.5 (8 Feb 2000), Win95 OSR2 Rus (4.0  Build 1212 B),
DirectX (4.06.00.0318) and a Cirrus Logic 5436 PCI gfx card (CL-GD5436 Rev
0, 4.10.00.1555 "4.10.00.1555"  English Final Retail).

When I run RHIDE from either Explorer.exe or Windows commander in
full-screen mode (80x25 16 colors BIOS mode #3) it works okay. But when I
want to exit from it using Alt+X, I get a lot of thin colored horizontal
lines randomly moving at the screen (something like TV tuning) and a frozen
up OS.

When I run it in a windowed mode it exits normally. It also exits normally
when I run it under Norton Commander or any other DOS shell in full-screen
mode.

Btw, RHIDE is the only program that has such a behaviour here. None of the
programs I have here does the same. Borland C++ IDE, Borland Pascal IDE,
other text programs and even gfx programs work normally.

I don't know why RHIDE dislike to exit directly to Windows if run in
full-screen mode. Or it does this because previous gfx mode is unknown for
that case. I think there is some kind of bug with mode changing. It's the
*only* program does this.

Okay, now I'll say you about how I solved it...

I made a PIF file for RHIDE.EXE with the following setup (I'm back
translating from Russian to English ;) :

General/
  Read-only = enabled
Program/
  Window = full-screen
  Window is closed on quit
Font/
  Both types used
  Font = TrueType 7x5 (I own a 14 inch display)
Screen/
  Mode = windowed
  Default size = 25 lines (I own a 14 inch display)
  Tool bar = disabled
  Parameters are restored on startup = enabled
Miscellaneous/
  Reserved Windows keys:
    Alt+Tab = enabled
    Ctrl+Esc = enabled
    the rest are disabled

With such a PIF file I can either run RHIDE in windowed mode from
Explorer.exe and Windows commander. It also alows to run RHIDE in
full-screen mode from Norton commander or something else if that shell (NC
or something) already runs in full-screen mode. This PIF file inhibits
changing of the mode from full screen to windowed and vice versa. 

This is what works for me perfectly. One guy also has similar problems with
RHIDE and he run RHIDE in windowed mode instead of full-screen and seems he
doesn't have a frozen up OS anymore.

Any thoughts on this? Andris, can you say something about this? But please
don't say it's a gfx card/driver problem. I don't really believe it because
RHIDE is the only program with such a harmful bhaviour here. The rest
programs don't crash my Win95 during mode switchings or something.

bye.
Alexei A. Frounze
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