I'm not complaining, but.....

[Mel Bishop]

I just got around to noticing. Under windows xp, my screen is
set to 1024x768 (24-bit hi color). When I run a program from
F8 or the dos prompt, the screen goes to 80(columns)x50(lines).

Now I'm not complaining about this but I thought PB/DOS (3.5)
defaulted to 80x25 and one had to use the SCREEN function to
switch modes.

Someone shed some light on this?
Cheers


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[keith shelton]

Check the default pif for dos and see what the screen size is set at.
KS

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[Mel Bishop]

Well, the "command prompt properties" gives me an 80x25. Okay,
I'm confused.


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[Tom Hanlin]

If the console is changing size only after you run the program, it's
likely to be the program that is changing the console size. Check for
a WIDTH statement in the source code.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Mel Bishop]

Wrote a test program. It works perfectly. Again, I'm using xp/pro
and the display adapter is set to 1024x768 24-bit hi-color. The
monitor is a Dell M781s being driven by Intel(r) 82810E Graphics
controller. The screen buffer size (right-click DOS icon > properties >
Layout) is 80x300 and the window size is 80x25.

	$lib all off
	color 14,1
	cls

	c = 64
	for row = 1 to 50  ' <-- Please note # of rows
	for col = 1 to 80
	incr c
	if c = 91 then c = 65
	print;chr$(c);
	next col
	next row
	end

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[Shawn Anderson]

I've had this problem with XP and some of my DOS programs (written
with PDS, not PB).
I never change the screen resolutionin my program, but sometimes it switches
to 80x50. I have no idea why. It happened so much at one place
in the program that I actually had to manually set the screen to
80x25 there. My customer was running it in full screen mode, and it
would all of a sudden switch to the windows desktop in a 80x50
window. It is weird and I think an XP thing.


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[Lance Edmonds]

In NT/2000/XP, the default console is 80x300. When a DOS app is launched, the closest "standard" console mode that is supported by the driver will be selected automatically, typically 80x43 or 80x50. When the DOS app end, the console is usually switched back to the original size again.


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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Mel Bishop]

Originally posted by Lance Edmonds:
In NT/2000/XP...the closest "standard" console mode...will be selected automatically

Oh, okay. Thanks.


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[Tom Hanlin]

If you change the screen buffer size from 80x300 to 80x25, the results
may be more the way you expect.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff