fp & vista

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: fp & vista


> Quoting Fairlight (Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:54:27 -0500):
> 
>> When asked his whereabouts on Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:50:23AM -0500,
>> Kenneth Brody took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>>>
>>> filePro will, if Vista allows it.  On some computers, Vista will refuse to
>>> let you put a console window into "full screen" mode, and will insist that
>>> you use "windowed" mode.
>>
>> Has anyone perchance nailed this down to a specific release of Vista?
>> Perhaps that feature is only in Professional and Ultimate, for instance.
> 
> It's not the release of Vista, but rather the video device driver.
> 
>     http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926657
> 
> It is also my understanding that fullscreen mode has been deprecated by
> Microsoft, and anything that is actually fully compliant with Vista's
> requirements will forbid fullscreen mode.

What? What about video players? Can't watch a dvd without window borders, buttons, mouse pointer, taskbar?? don't forget that lovely antivirus updater popup... yeah.
And all those gamers playing all those full immersion first person perspective games?
Heck even the browser has a full screen mode, though I haven't verified that
still exists in vista.

So if an app really wanted to be full-screen text, it should be
able to use whatever methods those types of apps use to "legally"
operate in full screen mode.

I once played with a terminal emulator for mac that used the 3d
hardware in the video card to render it's fonts out of vectors,
which suggests that movies/games don't use mechanisms that aren't
suitable to draw text.

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