Thanks for the icon hint - it will make life a bit easier!
The DP screen is limited to 78 characters, I believe, something like
that anyway. The way to increase its size is in the properties menu from
the DP icon in the top left corner of the screen, where you change the
*font* size to give you the size you want. I use the Lucida console
fonts, because they seem to give me the clearest text.
Don
On 19/02/2012 11:53 AM, barmag wrote:
> I'm running DP 2.6Y with Tameview 4.5.2, under Win 7 home 32 bit.
I've had no problems
> except that I can't get my DP icon to show the "picture". I set my
window size in DP, using the
> properties menu to set the font size. It sticks.
>
> Don
I had the same problem and found it here:
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/windowsseven.html#icon
Desktop shortcuts for DOS-based programs running under Windows 7
display only a blank generic icon, as in the example shown here. When
editing the properties sheet of a desktop shortcut, you can /select/
any icon you like, and the icon that you select will appear in the
General tab of the properties sheet, but it will not appear on the
Seven desktop. Only the generic icon will actually appear on the desktop.
This problem can be worked around in either of two ways:
Either *(**/a/**)* Create a batch file that runs the DOS-based
program, create a shortcut to the batch file, and assign a custom icon
to the shortcut. (For detailed information on creating and changing
shortcuts, see _another page on this site_ <shortcut.html>.) This
workaround may cause minor problems in memory management, etc.;
further information will be posted here when it becomes available.
(But see the note elsewhere on this page about _batch files under
Windows 7_ <%5Cl%20>.)
Or *(**/b/**)* Right-click on the Windows desktop */_(Wait! What
exactly does "right- click" mean?)_/* <winbasics.html>; select New
from the pop-up menu, then Shortcut; enter cmd.exe when prompted to
enter the location of the item; type a name such as "WPDOS" when
prompted to type a name for the shortcut; click Finish; right- click
on the resulting shortcut and choose Properties; on the Shortcut tab,
in the Target field, do /not/ change what you see there, but carefully
move the cursor to the right of cmd.exe, type a space, then the
following text (replacing c:\wp51 with the actual location of WPDOS on
your system): /c c:\wp51\wp.com (note very carefully that this begins
with a forward slash, then the letter "c", then a space, then a
directory location), then click on Change Icon and change the icon as
described below.
And I am wondering how to enlarge the DP screen?
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