From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT no DOT spam DOT please>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP, interprocess communication, and DPMI
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 17:37:52 +0100
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970924113548 DOT 18049C-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes
>
>On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Paul Shirley wrote:
>
>> Windoze seems to only understand some standard screen modes (and
>> possibly a few 'unusual' ones), choose one it does not know how to
>> handle and it fails to restore the window.
>
>AFAIK, when you try to set a video mode Windows doesn't know about, it 
>will switch your session to full screen mode.  Doesn't that happen for 
>you?

Yes, but the problem is it will let you Alt Tab out, then fail to
restore the fullscreen window mode correctly or at all (frequently
crashing your app) when you switch back. This is even more annoying when
some background app decides to grab the focus (like my mail client;)

That Windoze correctly intercepts the original mode set proves that it
is capable of capturing the state.

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