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A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

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    A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

    How can I run A4V4 on a Win2K Pro machine in full-screen mode. When we open the application, it only uses the top third of the screen. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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    RE: A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

    I don't know about Win2k, but in Win Nt 4.0 to do this I would:

    1) open A4 from the desktop short cut

    2)click on the system menu (the icon on the top-left of the window)

    3) select properties from the menu.

    4)In options/display options select 'Full Screen'

    5) Click button, select 'Save properties for future windows of same title' radio button from the prompt that comes up.

    This should put a4 into full screen mode every time it is launched.

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      RE: A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

      a) open alpha4 from the desktop in windowed mode
      b) right click on the title bar
      c) chose the layout tab

      d) set both the Screen Buffer height and the Screen size height to 25

      e) click ok

      f) in the apply property dialog click: Save properties for future windows with same title.

      You should have a clean window with no scroll bars. Pressing alt enter will get you to your familiar 80 by 25 full character mode screen.

      charles

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        #4
        RE: A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

        Ed,

        In both Win 98 and NT, when A4 loads there is a tool bar across the top of the screen. One of the icons contains arrows pointing in the compass headings (N ,S, E, W). Click on it and Alpha will drop into full screen mode. If I remember correctly, either Shift-Enter or Control-Enter drops it baco out.

        Dave
        Dave Jampole
        www.customalpha.com

        Women and cats will do whatever they want. The sooner men and dogs realize that, the happier they will be.

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          #5
          RE: A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

          Windows NT, 2000 and XP does not have that tool bar. and the key combination is Alt-ENTER.

          Charles

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            RE: A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

            Open Version
            Click on small box icon at top left of DOS window 'blue' bar
            click on properties, that will open menu

            or
            right (alternate) click anywhere on top [normally blue] bar
            clickon properties, that will open menu

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              RE: A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

              Our system is using Alpha4v6 Multi-User. The server has NT installed, but the clients were upgraded to Win2k Professional.

              I have tried the steps on one system and it does not hold the configuration.

              Should those steps to configure the monitor be performed on all clients or should the adjustments, made on the sever, be enough to provide the settings for each client?

              Or will I have to confiure each cleint?

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                RE: A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

                First of all, is Alpha 4 v4 or v6 capable of running on Windows 2000 Pro or Windows XP Home edition?

                I thought this was supposed to bring on data corruption.

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                  RE: A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

                  Reconfigure large database and see what happens.

                  Charles

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                    RE: A4V4 in Full-Screen in Win2K

                    Thanks for the reply Charles. If your message is a warning, why do you not also offer warning to the topic starter that is using "Win2K" in your reply above?

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                      ALPHA4 VERSION 6/7 PROBLEMS

                      For the past 2 1/2 years I struggled with Alpha4v6 and Win2k. I made it work as best I could, but would not recommend it to any one. My customers ran, and still run, their applications from a combinations of DOS 6x, Windows 9x, Win2k and WinXP. With each new version of Windows the granular crashes got worst. Under Win2k you are guaranteed a granular crash if you try to enter data from most sets. Sets that are limited to two tables, may work 80% of the time. You may also notice that some machines running Win2k are more stable than others. I'm not quite sure why.

                      What you can't do, is reconfigure a table under Win2k. Doing this will scramble the data within the fields. There is no way to recover from it. The first time I performed this was on a table with over 250,000 records. It could have been disaster. My most recent backup was days old. Fortunately the reconfigured table resided on a Netware server and Novell Salvage program saved the day. When you reconfigure a table the old copy is deleted and a new file with the same name is created. You cannot do this on a Windows server. Only files deleted directly by windows explorer will reach the recycle bin. Files deleted by any third party command will disappear "INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN".

                      3 months ago I purchased a single user and an unlimited runtime version of Alpha4v7. The granular crashes are a little less, but still there. Version 7 has cured the scrambled fields problem, which is good. The much-touted windows-driver printing fell way short of what I expected, which is very bad. There is no way to specify if a print job should be portrait or landscape via the windows printer driver option. All jobs print as portrait.

                      Because of this printing problem I will have to abandoned Version 7 as soon as I can. It will be a bit difficult and expensive. I expected to use Version 7 for some time (at least a year and a half), until I could learn Alpha5 and port all my applications.

                      If you have any other questions, feel free to email me direct.

                      Charles

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