nvidia & windows filepro problems-all other software works fine

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
> 
> Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Tony Freehauf been jivin' 'bout like:
> > I use a program called nvidia on my XP. Nvida allows for multiple monitors &
> > multiple sets of monitors. I have two monitors & four sets of these monitors.
> > I can put any other software on any screen & see that software only there.
> > This also works great with SCO unix & linix using any good terminal emulator.
> > The problem is when using Windows filepro (current version -5.0.11DN9) the
> > screen switching does not work. If i put filepro on monitor 1, filepro will
> > be on monitor 1 is screen sets 1-4. If i put filepro on monitor 2, filepro
> > will be on monitor 2 screen sets 1-4. Any one have any idea of what to do to
> > fix this?

Note that filePro does not control where its window appears.  This is
completely up to the O/S to handle.

> Fire up a DOS shell window and see if it exhibits the same behaviour.  My
> gut reaction is that it's an issue with fP running in a DOS console mode,
> since all the other references you make are to emulators and other truly
> windowed applications.

Also, note that the Windows version of filePro is a full-fledged Windows
application.  It happens to be a character-based rather than GUI-based,
but it is still a Windows application.  But, yes, it runs in a console
window.  (However, it is not a "DOS shell" running "DOS console mode".
Especially since he's running under XP, which does not run on top of
DOS, as 95/98/Me do.)

I agree that a quick test of the console window will probably show that
it also appears on all screen sets.  (And if it only appears on one set,
I would be very surprised if starting filePro within that window made it
appear on all sets.)

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