At the risk of re-inventing the wheel for some of you - I thought I would share
my findings.
Up to Win 7 32bit I believe Dataperfect with Tame (selected tame version to
suit OS) runs fine. Tame would appear to negate the need to run in XP mode etc.
Its probably internally doing that or similar within Tame. I didn't get as far
as printing but would think DPspool would be the easiest way to go? Perhaps Tim
or others can confirm that DPSpool will run OK under Win 7 32 bit. I did
briefly try the old net use commands in attempt to remap printers - but
unsuccessfully.
I did find that there are different versions of Tame 6.0.0.3. I downloaded
directly from Tamedos site to Win 7 32 Notebook for testing and found I could
not get screen settings to hold on exiting DP. Subsequently found right click
Tame Menus were different from Menus appearing with the Ver 6.0.0.3 I run at
work,
(dated 2011 against 2010).
Transferring version from work gave me the familiar menus (differences are
subtle) but still could not find way to hold settings.("Hold settings on exit"
is ticked but greyed out). Even multiple running DP in the same session had
each opening at the default window size. Suspect that although its a pain it's
not a deal breaker as resizing is simply dragging a window corner to the size
you want with tame running. I'm guessing it's a Win 7 issue that Tame doesn't
yet cope with. Anyone managed to maintain window size and settings, apart from
default ones, under W7?
As expected I didn't get far with Win 7 64bit - but one has to try these things
for oneself. Due to lack of need won't be spending any further time on this
one. I've got too many DVD projects on Video editing Win 7 x64 box to risk the
experimentation at this point.
Googling did eventually lead to the article below regarding WPdos - dosbox and
64bit and other options which some of you with the need, may well find a
worthwhile read. It does relate specifically to WP and discusses printing
options. Whether or not some of the info contained within can be applied to DP
will need analysis by someone with greater knowledge than me.
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/64bitwindows.html#dosbox
Regards
Colin
P.S. just to confirm the adage "I can always learn" - I just spent a number of
minutes trying to remove an asterisk that appeared after the word "cope" above
- you know - backspace - delete - retype etc. - gave up, then before hitting
"send" tried again - eventually found wiping finger across screen made the
"asterisk" disappear.
I'm blaming Notebook screen size - can't be getting that old :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Roberts
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DPMouse check box oddities - correction
Bit of modification required but DP running fine with Start up batch file on
Win 7 Pro with Tame 6.0 on my notebook
Modified batch file is
@echo off
start dp.exe /f5/p=3
cd\sales
cd
Tame 6.0 automatically starts with DP no need to include it in path and 1st
obvious benefit having tame running is window size can be set simply by
dragging corners of the DP Window to the size you want. Only problem is the
screen size doesn't hold on exit as I have it doing on Server 2003 (so the
window opens same size once set each time). I'm missing something - I'll keep
looking.
Don I've yet to play with the one database that has incremental field in it
but will do.
Apart from batch file mod, setup is pretty similar to XP and shortcut to
batch file works as expected
I see there is mention of x64 Tame??? on the net not too sure about that but
if I find out more. I'll play with this on my Video editing computer which runs
Win 7 Pro x64 and see what happens. But that will be another day - its getting
late here downunder.
Cheers
Colin
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