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When trying to run a program using 30, 43, 50, or 60 line fonts you can request
an alternate font in two ways:
1. Have the program put itself into the 43 line mode with the software capabil-
ities of the program. If the program writes directly to the screen set 'Text
Pages' to 2 and leave 'Maximum Height' at 25. If the program is not a direct
screen writer set 'Text Pages' to 1 and 'Maximum Height' to 43. You cannot
have both 2 Text Pages and Maximum Height greater than 25 lines. If you are
on a 386 machine and are Virtualizing you will treat the program as if it was
not a direct screen writer with regard to font sizes.
2. Make the program use 43 lines with the Desqview alternate font feature.
Set the program to use its standard font. Do Alt-Rearrange-Video and choose
the font you want. You can use the same rules as above with regard to direct
screen writing.
When Desqview will change the video mode and/or font:
Generally, Desqview will only change the video display when it has to. For
instance, when you pop up the Desqview menu, Desqview tries to bring up the
menu in the mode with the font the display is using at that time. If Desqview
can't figure out how to pop up its menu with the current display configuration,
it will change the display to some mode or font it can bring the DV menu up in.
The same is true for switching from window to window. If you are in a window that
is displaying a 25 line font and you switch to a window that is set to use 43
lines, Desqview will change the font so all 43 lines can be displayed. When
you switch back to the 25 line program, Desqview will probably not change the
font back to 25 line because 25 lines of text can be displayed on a 43 line
display. One exception to this rule seems to be, when starting up a program
(versus switching between programs) Desqview defaults to 25 line font unless
the program starting is telling the display to do otherwise.
A problem one may encounter when trying to use 43 line mode is a program
may do a TopView call (a call a program does to check whether it is running
in the IBM Topview environment). Since Desqview is a TopView like program,
Desqview will respond "Yes - you are in the Topview environment" when the
Topview call is made. Because Topview can't support the 43 line mode the
program may disable its ability to display more than 25 lines at a time.
This problem can be got around by using Nover.com. Nover.com is a TSR you
can run in a DV window before loading the program that does the Topview call.
Then Desqview will respond "No - you are not in the Topview environment".
Some programs require two text pages when using 43 lines. You will have to
set Maximum Height to 25 and Desqview is able to display 43 lines in some
cases anyway.