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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:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- When Desqview will change the video mode and/or font:
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- 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.
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- 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".
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- 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.
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