[Coco] VCC Update

[Bill Pierce]

James, keep me updated on this. It sounds like you're moving in the right direction. Though the original idea was to drop directx and move to QT or something similar that's cross-compilable.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 2:44 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC Update

William Carlin wrote:> VCC Windows lacks two key features that I'm sure everyone would love.> 1) The ability to paste text and have VCC process it just like you are> typing on the keyboard. Yes – definitely! > 2) Change the maximize window behavior to more closely match that> of XRoar.  Ditto – I agree!> Currently if you have a wide screen display, like most of us do,> when you maximize the VCC window or go full screen, the display is> stretched horizontally. Actually I *am* working on this.  I am quite close to having it work in Windowed mode (I think, that is .... I got distracted last night by looking at why on my development the drop/down insert menu item is not working on the MPI or Drives ... still don’t know why.) However, Full screen mode (pressing F11), here VCC is actually changing the DirectX / DirectDraw to full screen "mode".  In Windowed mode you are copying (aka blitting) a secondary screen device in memory to the primary screen device and the sizes can be arbitrary, so we can (or I better say, should be able to) control the aspect ratio. (we will see soon)  In DirectX / DirectDraw full screen mode, you are not dealing w/ rectangular drawing surfaces, but instead are just flipping the secondary screen device (which is always 640x480) -- so unless DirectX / DirectDraw Version 7 (what VCC uses) has the ability to set a setting do the aspect ratio itself (which I thinking it doesn’t), the workaround will be to change the Full Screen mode to a maximized Windowed mode – where you get rid of the Window boarders, but are in effect still in Windowed mode. > Optionally a 4x and 8x zoom would also be handy.Yes. 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x etc ... menus & short-cut keys. are coming too as part of the Aspect Ration fix. James-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco