Windows Full Screen

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Vaughan" <wvaughan at steelerubber.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: Windows Full Screen


> GCC Consulting wrote:
>>      Open the properties box for your shortcut.  Click on the layout tab
>>     and set Width 80  Height 25
>
> You must have a different Microsoft(R) Windows(R) [0] than me.
> I hold down ALT key and hit the ENTER key in order to get filePro for 
> Windows(tm) to switch to full-screen mode.

Alt-enter has nothing to do with the problem they are talking about.

If the layout properties are wrong (and they _are_ wrong until you change 
them manually for each new created shortcut), then when you switch to 
full-screen mode, whether via menu choice or alt-enter hot key, the filepro 
screen is squished up into the top 1/2 of the screen. This applies to at 
least win 2k and xp. Not sure about NT. Does not apply to me/98/95.

The reason is that by default the layout properties are 80x300
That is so that you have a lot of scroll-back in the windowed version of the 
command prompt screen.

Change the 300 to 25 and then full screen mode fills the screen normally.

If your machine is XP and doesn't do that then someone sometime has 
corrected your shortcut as described.
Last time I tried (5.0.9 or so) even the shortcut created by the fp 
installer needed to be fixed.

I've set up windows fp on many 2k and xp desks by now and never seen one 
case yet that _didn't_ do this.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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