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From: danny@convex.UUCP
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Subject: More VT100 Problems
Message-ID: <93500049@convex>
Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 22:53:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 11 22:53:00 1986
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Nf-From: convex.UUCP!danny    Oct 11 21:53:00 1986


For the nth time, I'd like to congradulate everybody involved in the VT100
program but there seems to be (another) bug.  When VT100 (old or new) starts
up, I have it set to open it's own two-color screen.  The window starts down
just a little.  Everything is fine and the window is a perfect 640X200.

BUT, after I move THE SCREEN, things change, the screen grows down a little
and the y hot point of the mouse goes down some.  What's even weirder, when
I drag the screen down, the top of the pointer (original y hot point) is at
the point where the mixed up point is normally but the y point gets mixed up
again later.  It's just plain weird.

The window before and after moving the screen is 24 lines down but after the
screen is moved, the window can move down without cutting if off.  This freaks
me out because the window shouldn't be able to move below the screen but it
does and after the screen is fixed, doesn't but can go down exactly one line.

I hope somebody can understand what I've said because I'm a little confused
myself...  Thanks.
By the way, this would be a good fix to throw in with 2.2

PLEASE ALSO when using a 4 color or more screen, change the color for bolding
instead of SetSoftStyle() and don't go and truncate the italics to fit 8x8.
Better yet, make this all optional:  either in vt100.init or menu.
Something like:  systemfontstyle=TRUE; or systemfontstyle=FALSE; and go from
there.  Double width/height fonts might be good too.  If anybody has a 6X8
font, you might even be able to do 132 columns.  The trick would be to open
a screen wider than 640.  One more thing, after the cursor gets past column
80, force a ^M^J so that I can type/see a line longer than 80 columns.  That
or put in scroll bars at the bottom ala Textcraft (Yecho! 8-)


Dan Wallach
...!ihnp4!convex!danny