I hope I'm not stating the obvious here...are you using the Double Size
option in the Config menu? (If so it will have Halve The Window Size in
the Config menu)
Thanks Dilwyn. That's what it was. I could see "halve the screen size" but
until I clicked that, I couldn't see "double the screen size". Everything
in that option is now working fine.
Glad that helped, Norman.
I think Wolfgang introduced this to make it easier for users with restricted
vision to read the small QL text when used at high resolutions, but it's
pretty handy when using QL 512x256 resolution on a large monitor.
By default, SMSQmulator here is 1024x768 and if I accidentally use double
size it more than fills the display, although it doesn't seem to immediately
crash for me unlike how it did for Bob (I am using v1.05 on Windows 7
64-bit).
Some other QL emulators have similar facilities - QL2K lets you choose some
preset magnifications, others will let you drag corners, although results
aren't always pretty if you don't get a multiple of the original resolution.
Incidentally, a little tip for Windoze users. I wanted a shortcut for
SMSQmulator on the Windoze taskbar but all I could get was the general Java
icon. I know SMSQmulator displays the "Wolf Soft" icon when the emulator
runs, but couldn't get that to display on the taskbar. Having designed a
little icon which (apologies to Marcel) looked just like the QPC II one, I
found a way to change it. (If anyone wants the icon, just send me an email,
the list won't let me post a graphic or icon here).
Create an icon which is a shortcut to SMSQmulator.jar . If your paths
includes the location of javaw.exe, just browse to SMSQmulator.jar and that
may be enough. If not, you may need to call javaw.exe with the full path and
the SMSQmulator.jar as a command, e.g. in my case:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe" -jar
"c:\SMSQmulator7\SMSQmulator.jar"
In the Properties window, choose the Shortcut tab. Click on the Change Icon
button. If it offers a suitable icon in the list, choose one of those.
Otherwise, use the Browse button to locate a suitable icon, a ".ico" file -
you may find you can use others such as .png or .bmp but I haven't tried
those. I created mine as a 32x32 graphic in Windows Paint and copied it into
a program such as Irfan View to convert it to an .ico Windows icon file and
saved it in the SMSQmulator folder.
Click OK. You will find on some versions of Windoze that it insists on still
displaying the Java icon. Looking this up on the internet I realised that
next time I restarted Windoze the icon displayed correctly.
Dilwyn
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