Hello all
The first thing that happens when you do a JFW installation is Doctor Jaws
checks your display settings, and if your colors are set to anything higher
than 256 the good Doctor adjusts the settings downward. Why would HJ go to
the trouble to develop an utility to do something that was "not necessary".
Sure your machines will run with color settings higher than 256, but I'd
like to know what applications you are using. I have noticed that the MS
Office suite behaves quite poorly with high color settings. The same for
the Realplayer and other apps.
If you have a system that sighted people are going to use, I would recommend
setting up different profiles, that way the sighted users can have their
color and resolution the way they like it.
You may go for some time with out noticing any difference with higher color
settings, but eventually some weird behavior will occur, and when you call
HJ tech. support, or write the list, you will be asked to set your colors to
256.
But if you're feeling rebellious, I'd be the last one to want to stop you.
Gator
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Karl Smith
Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 9:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: solve all your video problems now!
Hi Derik,
The other day my son installed some publishing software on my computer
which wanted high color. We changed the video settings to high color and I
figured I'd change them back when I used JFW. Well, they work fine with
JFW so I have left them set to high color. There are no particular drivers
it all depends on your video card. Try it out and see if it works. I'm
using a Matrox Milenium G200 card.
At 08:15 AM 8/1/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>are their drivers to make JFW work, and recognise colors in hi color mode.
>I'm sure my parents would like better graphics.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Stephen Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 7:21 PM
>Subject: solve all your video problems now!
>
>
>> I've put windows in high color, 16 bit mode and it seems to not crash as
>> much. I had a game I set up for the kids (no it's not speech friendly)
>and
>> when I ran it with jfw loaded in memory, scrape scrach! this program has
>> performed an illegal operation and your computer will freese up, your
hard
>> disk will fragment all over the place like broken glass, and other nasty
>> surprises which I'll leave you to discover.
>> I tried switching the computer to high color 16 bit mode and the game ran
>> no problem.
>> I have also found out that setting the computer in 16 bit high color mode
>> to stop other programs from crashing. But. there's a catch. It seems
>that
>> if you want jfw to read graphic labeling properly, you have to set it up
>in
>> 256 color mode, enter an ms-dos prompt, press ctrl-enter, then type exit.
>> I hope this message is of some help and will prevent more system crashes
>in
>> the future. P.s if jfw crashes on your new computer when you try to
>> install it, have a sighted assistant help you to enter the control pannel
>> and go through the display settings with you.
>>
>> -
>> Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
>
>-
>Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
>
>
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