Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Z-Soft Publishers Paintbrush for Windows upgrade info Message-ID: Date: 17 Dec 90 22:12:42 GMT References: <4478@peora.ccur.com> Sender: news@seri.gov (news) Distribution: na Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 39 joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch) writes: >Yes what Z-Soft did kind of sucks, but maybe you can do what I did. >When I bumped up against the limits of the Version of Paintbrush >bundled with Windows I also asked about upgrading my PC Paintbrush + >for Windows for 3.0. They said that Windows 3.0 version wouldn't be >ready for quite a while and suggested I upgrade to PC Paintbrush IV+. >If supports all the nice SuperVga modes on my card (Paradise VGA Pro) >and runs quite nicely as a DOS application under the 386 mode of >Windows. In fact, I suspect that this is the best way to run it, since >a lot of the functions eat expanded memory like it's going out of >style and I suspect that the performance is better than the Windows >version will be. Another advantage is that you don't have to restart >Windows if you want to go from say 640x480x256 to 800x600x2 modes. I >set up seperate .BAT and PIF files for the modes I want to use and >then set menu selections in CMDPOST for them. >If your VGA card and printer are on the supported list for IV+ you >might want to try it. Yes they are. I have a Video 7 VRAM VGA (which I think is quite nice). There is just one little biddy problem with it. When you start a DOS app from Win3, you cannot change video modes. I have had this problem with DesignCAD 2D and just now I tried it with PC PaintBrush IV Plus. It locked the DOS session. I'm going to have to get out of news and restart Windows to clear it up. Others have complained about this here in comp.windows.ms about the other video modes with WordImperfect. Video 7 says "That's not a bug. It's a feature." It supposedly keeps 'ill-behaved" programs from messing things up (or something like that). I personally don't see how that can be worse than crashing a DOS session. Maybe it is. Still, I have a one-year-old copy of Paintbrush for Windows that has never been used. I think I'll check out the competition. -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Missionary VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future