Just for fun, I just gave DP a try in full-screen mode on a IIyama ProLite
27 inch screen...
Verdict : apart from the fact that the walking distance from the top left
to the bottom right corner is approx. 15 minutes, DP *does* work perfect
in full-screen mode in Win 7/32.
However, I personally prefer to run DP with a Lucida Console font in a
*window*, with the font-size automatically adapting to the windows screen
size in Win7/32(!), the very useful copy/paste facilities of the window
environment - and Edward Hoppers Night Hawks in the background !
You are very right Jon : simple *is* better - and faster! I've been using
DP for many years now as a CMS-system for building very classy php
web-sites and I hope to be able to continue for many years to come :)
Best regards to all my collegue dinosaurs!
Geert.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:36:49 +0100, Jong <[email protected]> wrote:
Gerard, Geert & Tim:
Really nice to get continued support for our DP dinosaur from the gang.
I've considered switching to Access or other databases but I still
believe simple is better, especially with complex data sets thatI deal
with in a medical practice.
Full screen really only a concern for the portable netbooks I have to
carry around at work, I realize that's not too much of an issue onthe
big screen.
From what I've seen so far, someone (excuse me for forgetting who it was)
said win7/32 pro allowed XP emulation with full screen so it looks like
that's the easiest way to go for me.
As for win7/64, (which unfortunatley I have on one of my laptops), it
looks like best solution is creating a virtual PC using VMware and then
WinXP
--
lots of work there.
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerard van Loenhout [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 12:26 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; Dataperfect Users Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DOS in Win 7/64 questions
Hi Jong!
I use DP Win7 / 32 Home. The window is not bigger than the dosbox in XP.
I find it quite comfortable to work with.
With these big screens nowadays I haven't actually tried fullscreen.
Geert probably knows more.
Gerard
2013/2/14 Jong <[email protected]>
Geert & everyone:
Thanks for the latest info on Dp in Win7/32, just a few clarifiers:
1. Do you have pro or home version Win7/32?
2. Does DP run in full screen mode?
3. How do you print up your HTML output from DP?
4. Is there a print spooler we can use similar to DP Spool to make
printing
seamless?
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 6:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DOS in Win 7/64 questions
Hi all,
I can only agree with Gerard : I am running DP 'straight out of the box'
without any problem on a Win7/32 system. NB: I don't even use Tame !
All my reports are saved into html-files, which solves all possible
printing problems...
Regards,
Geert.
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:03:25 +0100, Gerard van Loenhout
<[email protected]> wrote:
Don, I was the one who started the most recent discussion about Win7.
DosBox is too slow. I bought a couple of Win7/64 PCs at Dell. I bought
a CD from them with Win7/32 for the same PCs so I had the right
drivers. Now DP works fine.
2013/2/12 Don Friedman <[email protected]>
I know that there has been discussion about this but I can't seem to
find
a way to search it out on the main site. Is their a trick to that?
I've finally "grown up" and put a couple of Win7/64 boxes in the
office.
I'm assuming that I can run dosbox to run DP without much trouble - I
never
have a need to print from DP and if I remember right that was part of
the
problem. Am I on the right track here? I'm assuming that it will still
be
faster to run DP via dosbox on my newer machines than to run them on my
older XP machine.
Don
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