Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: DOS windows in Enhanced mode?? Message-ID: <3317@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 8 Sep 90 09:13:24 GMT References: <9009052355.AA21062@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Sep6.211922.6571@world.std.com> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 39 marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes: >goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl) writes: >>To turn a full-screen dos application into a windowed one, press Alt-Return. >>To start a DOS app as a window, you do need to specify that in a pif file. >I am under the impression that this will work only for those >applications that use DOS calls to write to screen. Any program that >writes directly to screen memory will work only in full screen mode. >This includes just about all commercial software. Wrong. In Enhanced mode (see subject line), any program that runs in text mode and writes directly to screen memory, or runs in a lower resolution supported graphics mode (compared to the mode used by the Windows video driver) and writes directly to the screen memory will work in a window. For example, on this machine (386, Tseng based super VGA, generic 800*600*16-driver) I can use SCREEN 1 =320*200 and Screen 2 =640*200 of BASIC in a window (I don't program in BASIC anymore, but it comes handy to try such things out). If memory serves me right, I can run standard EGA resolution graphic programs on the 8514/A in my office, in a windows. But screen updates are s l o w. It is a very valuable feature, nevertheless. And I like the ability of Windows to adjust to text mode switching between different text modes (# of lines) dynamically, too. I miss the ability to start old DOS applications maximized in a window, (this should be a PIF flag) and am not satisfied with the handling of the window positioning for maximized windows (one looses the window position after minimizing, it comes up top left so that one has to go through restore, maximize). I think its a bug, because Maximize and Restore do the same when enlarging a minimized window. (I hope I got the operation names correct, it's named "Wiederherstellen", "Symbol" and "Vollbild" in the German version of Windows. The context should explain what I mean). Wolfgang Strobl #include