> Hellooo! If you read my original post on this you will see that
> the Dell is
> installed with this "decent video card" (NeoMagic) and the very
> latest driver.
> I am NOT loading up any more component images than are provided
> with a vanilla
> install of D3 Prof.
>
> So where does the problem lie??
The drivers, or more specificly, the version you have. I'm onto my second
laptop with NeoMagic video cards, running either NT4 or Windows 2000, and
I've NEVER seen the problem. I also have never installed a driver from their
web site - only updated them with the OS.
> You suggest here that if Delphi doesn't display properly then the
> problem is a
> cheap (and nasty?) Video card.
yes and no. cheap video cards can be OK - cheap and nasty video drivers are
BAD. Generally, the drivers are more likely to be dodgy when the card costs
$30 retail.
> Yet above you accept that the
> NeoMagic card is
> OK.
as I said, I have a NeoMagic MagicGraph 256MV in my Acer laptop, and I had a
neomagic in my previous Digital machine. Both worked perfectly.
> For your info the NeoMagic card will support display at
> 1024x768 @75Hz and
> 32 bit colour.
Yup - exactly what I'm running it at :)
> Even if this card proves to be OK in a Toshiba but cheap in a
> Dell 8-) it
> still doesn't explain why Delphi worked fine in an older Dell of
> similar spec
> (with the same video card).
Newer video card? different amount of RAM? (see Max's explanation for more
info), different driver? lots of reasons.
Ever wounder why Playstation games never crash on you, but PC games do quite
a bit? Try supporting one fixed set of hardware, vrs any combination of any
card.
> I do believe that suggesting the problem is caused by crappy
> video cards is a
> bit of a glib response from Borland - in the face of what is
> clearly a problem
> that is experienced faily widely.
No, its not experienced widely - it experienced on a few machines, with
specific video cards and specific drivers - and it should be experienced
with ANY application that uses a lot of ImageList items. The only solution
for Inprise would be to rewrite the image list, which means
rewriting/cloning every windows control that uses them, which is pretty much
all of the new ones. Not a good option, when they dont really have control
to fix the problem in the first place.
N
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trousers?
For at best, will he not suffocate his chickens, and, and worst, will he not
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