From: "Alexei A. Frounze" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: RHIDE problem with GFX modes is fakely SOLVED Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 01:37:28 +0400 Organization: MTU-Intel ISP Lines: 75 Message-ID: <3919D698.D35A5353@mtu-net.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp107-172.dialup.mtu-net.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gavrilo.mtu.ru 957994659 65950 212.188.107.172 (10 May 2000 21:37:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse AT mtu DOT ru NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 2000 21:37:39 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 ----------------------------------------- Homepage: http://alexfru.chat.ru Mirror: http://members.xoom.com/alexfru