1. I think Cleartype cannot be turned off in Vista, maybe wrong but remember reading something about this in a newsgroup. 2. Isn't this just because the resolution selected is not a widescreen resolution? 3. Right click the shortcut, do you have an option below the Attributes section to trust or unlock the file?
I installed my Ultimate on my media centre...goodbye MCE2005, finally! Jason -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Thursday, 22 March 2007 3:54 p.m. To: Jason Subject: [DUG] First Vista tests I tried my first brief Vista tests today on a friends laptop (Vista Home basic). To avoid installing and hitting UAC I just copied a working folder of programs off a USB drive. The good news is everything I have from BDS 2006 ran perfectly (well almost perfectly - see below). Including a quite complex program with many forms and controls, which resizes itself automatically to the screen and uses Rave reports. Vista itself looked nice, and familiar in the main - most things were in the same place. Even some 15 year old DOS software (non Delphi) ran perfectly, basically the same as or even better than on XP. I was wondering about that, as it uses a lot of environmental variables and the ANSI screen driver and starts up using a very complex batch file. I did find a couple of oddities: 1 - The Delphi program font seemed just a little blurry. That may be a setup issue on the Vista itself - as some of the other menus and programs also looked a tad blurry. I remember that IE7 introduced a new setting that often does something similar (IE7/Tools/Internet options/Advanced/use Clear Type fonts for HTML) This got turned on by IE7 - its supposed to improve the screen display for LCD screens and often makes the screen look worse rather than better. 2 - The screen was a wide screen. Circular shapes on the screen are no longer circular. I got rather worried about my analogue clocks somewhat squashed shape until I noticed the sidebar widget was the same....this may be relevant for other forms if the wider screen means the pixels are not as high as they are wide....is this a horrible kludge from the PC screen maker or is this a general feature with wide screens? I cannot imagine Apple would have this "feature". 3 - UAC (User Access Control) was no hassle - from years running Unix programs is almost a relief to finally have to consider ownerships and access to folders - I just manually altered a couple of data folders to full control to make sure I had no problems. The shortcut I created manually on the desktop has a UAC shield added to it, and asks everytime I run it if it is a trusted program - How do I permanently get rid of that? 4 - Inno setup 5 install did NOT work. The install ran fine, but the startup program complained of access violations - as far as I could tell it was from something from the install as the same program copied manually onto the PC worked. 5 - One program (BDS 2006) using the XP manifest displayed some rather odd behaviour: It starts with some radiogroups and buttons disabled (to avoid screen clutter it starts with them disabled unless these options are turned on for advanced users). These controls did not paint at all - they were just blank, but on mousing over them they magically appeared..... Now I just have to find a PC to install my new Vista Ultimate onto (courtesy of the Microsoft technical briefing). My working PC only takes 1GB memory maximum, so I don't think that's enough.... John _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@ns3.123.net.nz http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@ns3.123.net.nz http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
