[Coco] NOS9 v3.30 Multivue not working correctly

[Bill Pierce]

Curtis, do you remember what system module controls the menuing functions?
All that needs to be fixed in the hires 2 color mode is that the "box" around the top menu bar is displaying the wrong char or something. Instead of being a sloid box around the top bar, it becomes vertical lines all the way across the menu bar. If you mouse over and click where a menu item "should" be, it will appear and function properly. It really seems to be just a minor bug in how that pattern is displayed (stdpats_2?) and could probably be fixed.
This is not a gshell problem as it happens in running anything that makes the menubar system calls even without gshell/multivue installed.
 
Here's a pic of MV Canvas in hires 2 color mode:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23059963/Pictures/MV%20Canvas/MVC%202%20color%201.bmp
 
Same mode but menu item selected:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23059963/Pictures/MV%20Canvas/MVC%202%20color%202.bmp
 
Now in hires 4 color mode:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23059963/Pictures/MV%20Canvas/MVC%204%20color%201.bmp
 
Same mode with menu item selected:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23059963/Pictures/MV%20Canvas/MVC%204%20color%202.bmp
 
All other graphics functions seem to work in hires 2 color mode. The only thing I've noticed is the menu bar bug.
Any ideas where this would be? grfdrv maybe?

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, May 21, 2014 9:18 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] NOS9 v3.30 Multivue not working correctly


If the current version is based on 1.26a (the last version I worked on), there 
was some things I put into env.file that did allow you to control the colors at 
boot up. I added a 2nd set of 4 default colors that Gshell itself uses, in 
addition to the system wide defaults that were already in there. Been a long 
time since I looked at any of that, but I think I had it so that it would load 
those in by default as well, as opposed to have to run CONTROL -E. It's been a 
long time since I looked at it, but I think they were something like GSHPAL0= 
through GSHPAL3=, or something like that.

I should mention - Kent Meyers did the original disassembly (And all the 
modifications up through version 1.25) - he kindly gave me his last source, and 
I did my updates based on that. It was originally written in C, and Kent's 
disassembly was in ASM source, which is what I used. If he disassembled the 
utilities, I don't recall that we ever received them.
Also, Bill Pierce was mentioning that two color MultiVue windows were broke in 
the NitrOS-9... that was a conscious decision. In order to get the 3-D look to 
work, one needs more than two colors to do it properly. Since MultiVue itself 
did not use it, and 99% of other WindInt based programs did not also (I was 
aware that MVCanvas did), the decision was made to not officially support it. I 
believe that the Level II Version 3.0 upgrade this as well, although I never 
tried to run MVCanvas under it (we only had pieces of it, and way too late in 
NitrOS-9's development, to do much with it). 
L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On May 21, 2014, at 2:00 AM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:

>> the color problem you describe, but I haven't looked either. I >have noticed 
that MV does not "startup" in the settings you >have saved in the "control 
panel" (env.file). If you 
> 
> 
> Put the line "control -e" in your startup for that to happen. 
> 
> Willard 
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