On 8 Dec 2003 at 5:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Surely if the screen resolution is altered, any jobs which have windows which
> fall outside the new area should be suspended rather than removed and only
> reinstated once the screen size is large enough to accomodate their windows......
Umpf, and how do you test for that? What happens if the user unsuspends the job
whilst the screen is still too small?
> I have made it configurable in QWord (similar to Launchpad) as to whether it
> can alter the screens resolution and colour depth, but this does not help if
> SuperBASIC is killed off, even after the program resets the screen resolution
> and colour depth.
Job 0, the "mother of all SBasics" isn't killed off. I don't think it can be killed at
all.
The easiest way around your problem is to set up a hotkey
eg ert hot_wake ('b','sbasic'). This will call up a new sbasic, with the standard
windows,
whenever there is none there yet..
> Also, if anyone has followed my work on QWord, they will notice that I now
> need to perform two main tasks if a QWord is QUIT - namely, remove the QTYP
> device driver and reset the colour depth and screen resolution if necessary.
1-
As a general idea, I would think it to be a pretty bad idea to remove a device driver
simply because a job no longer needs the device. Surely it is better to load the
device
driver separately by way of a boot program. Many of us will have it installed anyway.
What happens if the driver is there twice? Which one is removed?
(BTW - are you sure you're allowed to link the QPYP extensions into your program?).
2-
Surely it would be better if your QWord adapted itself to the existing screen
resolution &
colour depth rather than the other way around?
> Of
> course, it cannot do this if the job is killed from outside or loses focus -
> we really need an event which can be monitored (aka Windows) to allow a
> program to take certain action when it is killed externally or loses focus.
Do you mean that you want to quit the job every time it loses focus? Does this make
any sense on a multitasking machine?
Sorry if I sound rather critical, perhaps I haven't really understood what you meant.
Wolfgang
