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- From: keith@sytex.com (Keith Attenborough)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: W4W 2.0b, ToggleScribbleM
- Message-ID: <gate.BHXVwB1w165w@sytex.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 22:42:22 EST
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- Hello;
- Does anyone have any experience with ToggleScribbleMode in W4W
- 2.0b? I'm having a problem and haven't received a response from
- Microsoft yet.
-
- System info: 486/33, 8mgb RAM, EISA, ATI Ultra Graphics card
- w/1mgb VRAM, 15" flat screen non-interlaced w/.28mm dot pitch
- and 72mhz refresh running 600x800. DOS 5.0, Win 3.1, Win for Pen
- 1.0.
-
- Intro: ToggleScribbleMode allows user to place "ink" on
- a W4W document when VIEW is set to Page Mode. The ink remains as
- ink (as opposed to being automatically translated into text), is
- saved with the file and can be viewed on another system, even if that
- system is not equipped with Win for Pen. The ink does not print, and
- is not visible in either VIEW Normal or VIEW Draft modes.
-
- Problem: While ink is being placed, the last object drawn, any
- inked object in a horizontal line with the last object drawn and
- any inked object in a horizontal line the height of the curser bar
- and in line with the curser bar will "blink" off the screen for some
- random period of time, then reappear. Other inked objects on other
- parts of the screen and any typed text remain unaffected.
- Ink placed on the doucment when NOT in ToggleScribbleMode does
- not show the same effect, though that ink remains in place only
- until writing is paused. Once it writing is paused, the ink is
- translated into typed text.
-
- Solutions Proposed: MS help line first proposed the problem
- might be connected to screen refresh rates, but at 72mhz and given
- the pattern, that proposal seems couter-intuitive. No second
- solution has been offered. The hardware manufacturer (Dell) also
- does not believe it is refresh rate related, but does not have an
- alternative suggestion.
-
- So -- any ideas? This capability is important to the intended
- application, which is to allow senior managers to use Windows for
- Pen computing at the desktop to annotate documents, transmitted over
- the LAN, for action or for later correction by the author.
- Currently these managers handwrite notes and comments on hardcopy
- documents.
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
- Keith Std Disclaimer -- still working on that tag line.
- keith@sytex.com
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