[Coco] Vcc 1.4.3b and DW4 Installation Guide

[Bill Pierce]

Aaron,
I run a few tests on the new Vcc myself. I did find one bug that definately needs to be looked into.
In running a GUI with a mouse cursor in windowed mode, the mouse cursor behaves as it should. When you go to Fullscreen mode, the mouse then will only access 1/4 of the screen. The mouse positions seem to be reading the proper coordinates (X & Y), but will not move past half screen in either direction. I have tried this on several programs including MV Canvas, MultiVue, and my own MShell. This only happens in fullscreen and not when resizing the window in "windowed" mode.

Another note, I don't know if this was intentional... In fullscreen, the menu bar disappears. There is no way to access disk drives while in fullscreen. I know the menubar is part of the "window" frame and probably should disappear in fullscreen but you have to exit fullscreen to change disks in the drives or access any Config items. Maybe some sort of control key system could access the menus? 

And also, with some windows (windows programs, not Coco) open, going to fullscreen in the emulator produces a "screen flicker" in the border areas (not actual text screen area). Hitting "F10" to take away the "statusbar" seems to stop the flicker.  You can then hit "F10" again to bring the status bar back and the flicker will not return. Also, the flicker will appear if Windows brings up one of it's "Notification" dialogs in the background (behind the screen), the area of the dialog box will flicker. Again, "F10" makes it stop. This happens only in fullscreen as well.

So far, these are the only things I've noticed. The mouse issue is a big problem (but most likely an easy fix)


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 8, 2014 4:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Vcc 1.4.3b and DW4 Installation Guide


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On 9/03/2014 7:04 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>
>> Please try placing this .exe in your VCC installation directory (same
>> place vcc.exe lives) and double clicking to start.  F11 will either
>> work now, or at least give a much more useful error message that will
>> help me fix it.  Fullscreen is working on my Win 8.1 x64 dev box and a
>> Win 7 VM.
>>
>> http://cococoding.com/vcc/Vcc-fstest1.exe
>>
>
> I am running the standard VCC 1.42 (non becker) and it works on Windows 7
> and 8 (32 bit is all I have) perfectly.
>
> I just pressed F11 on my Win 7 PC and it worked fine at full screen.
>

In testing this afternoon, I've found that the code in 1.42 will work
for some combinations of resolution, color depth, and/or video driver
on Win 7/8, but not others.  Didn't do enough testing to say exactly
which or why.  The minor change I made in the test exe *should* work
on any combination though, and definitely works on the combinations I
have here where 1.42 does not.  If it works for everybody that tests
it, I'll see if we can make a new installable package with the change.

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