If you are having problems with "disappearing fields" in Exceed, make sure Save Unders is enabled and Backing Store is set. To do this, open the xconfig icon under Exceed. Open the performance icon under xconfig. Make sure there is a check mark in the box next to Save Unders. Next to Maximum Backing Store it should read Always. Next to Default Backing Store it should read When Mapped. Next to Minimum Backing Store it should also read When Mapped. These settings don't make Exceed a perfect replacement for an xterminal but they certainly make it a lot better than it's default settings. We use Exceed on a dual boot NT machine and on a Win95 box. We notice a blinktask core file periodically but have had no other ill effects from operators turning a PC off or losing power to the PC. We have stressed that ICC and other on line editing functions should not be left open and unattended on any of the machines to help reduce problems. Kevin FitzGerrell Fairbanks Gold Mining, Inc. -------------original message--------------- Subject: RE: XVision on Win98 Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 07:57:01 -0700 From: "Murray, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Foxboro DCS Mail List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We use a combination of Exceed, Go Global, Windows 3.1 (yeah I know its old), Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. Depending on the operating system and video card, we can use either 256 colors or True Color settings. They all act a little differently. The most bizarre problem is using Exceed on a Windows 98 machine. If you open a Foxview display from one AW and then an old Display Manager from another AW, the old DM screen is completely black. If you open the old DM first & then the Foxview, everything works fine. Go Global does not have this problem (but it does have a few others), and the same machine using Windows NT (dual-boot) works fine with either Exceed or Go Global. On the machine I am using right now, a Windows 98, Exceed behaves differently in 256 and True Color modes. In the old DM the normal outline box that appears when the mouse cursor is over a "pickable" field only shows up in 256 color mode. In True color you have to know which fields are pickable, and the yellow outline box appears only after you have selected the field. In a Foxview session the outline box shows up all the time . . . Any of the Foxboro utility type programs like the ICC or the Historian have problems when run from the PCs, so I don't use them unless I really have too. If you can remember where the disappearing fields in the ICC are it isn't TOO bad, but it still makes me nervous when I'm at home & I have to use it. I guess there is no perfect PC access method! Stephen Murray Asarco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
