silvercreekvalley writes: > I'm using a QXL card with SMSQ/E and everything seems > to work OK. As I'm fairly new to the QL scene, I just > wondered if there is a way to make the display either > larger or centered? > > What happens at the moment is that the display (group > of 3 windows) appears in the top left of the screen. > > I think SMSQ/E supports 800x600 mode but it wasnt > clear > how to set that. WINDOW 800,600,0,0 etc dont seem to > do anything?
What you see are the old QL default windows in your larger screen. Since a lot of old programs dont know any better (they think the QL display is still 512x256 pixels) the top left hand corner can get rather crowded, therefore I like to keep my SBasic working windows in the top right hand corner. My boot file (win1_boot) contains these line to effect that: 1 OUTLN#0,512,256,SCR_XLIM-512,0 2 WINDOW#0;512,52,SCR_XLIM-512,204 3 PAPER#0;0:INK#0;5:BORDER#0;1,255:CLS#0 4 WINDOW 256,202,SCR_XLIM-256,0 5 PAPER 2:INK 7:BORDER 1,255:CLS 6 WINDOW#2,256,202,SCR_XLIM-512,0 7 PAPER#2;7:INK#2;2:BORDER#2;1,255:CLS#2 This should give you some idea of how to place these windows where you want them. OUTLN sets the outline for a program's window group; you cant set the windows in a program outside this outline. If you enter the command SBASIC you get a new instance of the Basic interpreter. You can set a different OUTLN for that instance. To move the program's windows interactively, enter the command WMOV and move the pointer to some location and press <enter>. To quit the second instance of Sbasic enter QUIT. This is just for starters. Im sure you'll shortly be flooded with good advice. Happy QL-ing! Per _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
