Thanks JIm - I'll pass this odd experience on to the client. David
David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Limburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:41 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: R:BASE for DOS 6.5++ on XP > David > > We just ran into a ghosting problem last week on a XP machine. > It was with everything though.. mostly menus and task bar and such. > What was wierd is that we first thought video card. We first pulled > the AGP video card out and reseated it.. no effect. We replaced it > with a new duplicate card and then the machine wouldn't boot up... > OH yes, we were thinking "having fun" at this point. > So we took out the AGP video card and put in a PCI video card. > The machine booted up.. hmmm.. we thought.. We also checked the BIOS > because some have a setting to look for a AGP card first.. Well, we got > curious and put the AGP card back in and it booted fine and the ghosting > effect went away.. you go figure out why Windows corrected after all this. > > Jim Limburg > > David M. Blocker wrote: > > > > Hi Folks > > > > > > > > A client of mine is upgrading their machines from Windows 98 to WIndows XP. > > In one case, they brought in a NEW machine with XP, installed R:Base 6.5++ > > DOS again, and it runs our application just fine. > > > > > > > > On the second, they took the SAME machine and changed it from 98 to XP. In > > the process, they uninstalled 6.5++ and then installed it again. > > > > > > > > On this machine, at first they weren't getting a full screen. I helped them > > with that by setting up a new icon that runs a batch file that in turn runs > > RBase (paths are OK), and setting the properties on the Options Tab to "full > > screen". > > > > > > > > However, they are now getting a very strange "ghosting" effect, as they > > describe it to me. First the commands in the batch show on the screen even > > when in R:Base. Second, when they select an item in the menu which brings > > up an editing screen, and then leave that screen to return to the menu > > (created with a CHOOSE command from a PULLDOWN block in an APX file), the > > record just edited remains on screen in the background even though the form > > has been closed. It isn't the form - it runs fine on the other machine. > > > > > > > > We checked the system variables - TEMP, TMP, FILES, BUFFERS - the latter two > > were missing but we added them in. No effect.. > > > > > > > > Anyone seen anything like this before? Have any ideas what to do? They have > > more PC's to upgrade but they're on hold until we figure this on out! > > > > > > > > David Blocker > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 781-784-1919 > > Fax: 781-784-1860 > > Cell: 339-206-0261 > > > > > >
