John Hall makes some magical things to make me read } Rich Mellor wrote: } } > The problem with writing these programs is if you want to change the } > screen colour depth and resolution to fit your application (why } > should QWord use the standard QL colours on QPC2 when it can switch } > into high colour mode). } } IMHO, a program should *never* change the colour depth or screen } resolution without the user's express permission!
Seconded ! A good program should adapt itself to the current mode, and never expect the mode to always stay the same. At worst, it could detect the mode 8 and just avoid running (just a small window stating: "Sorry, I do not run in mode 8"). } } If I'm running QPC2 in, say, 800x600 QL colour mode, it's for a } reason. The last thing I want is for a program to take it upon itself } to change things, especially since a change could have fatal } consequences for other running programs (c.f. comments received by } Dilwyn re. the behaviour of the pre-release version of Launchpad)... The consequence so far that I noticed when toggling from 1024x512 to 512x256 on the Q40 is the removal of tasks whose windows where outside the new place. Including the button-framed one, because my button frame is never in the top-left...
