I always select the rbase exe in the directory it's going to run from and right-click-drag and copy as shortcut to desktop and then...
1. On the Desktop shortcut, right-click and then left-click on the properties menu. 2. Click on the Misc tab and remove the check for Allow Screen Saver 3. Click on the Screen tab and choose Window to start up RBase at first 4. Click Apply - and OK to save settings, now Double-click shortcut to start RBase in a Window. 5. Once Rbase is up, left or right click on the C:\ Icon in the top left corner 6. Go to the Options tab and in the Display Options frame click the Full Screen option 7. You will get prompted by an Apply Properties dialog. Click the Save properties for future windows with same title option and then OK. 8. This will bring you to a full screen. Immediatly exit RBase and then right-click on the desktop Icon and choose properties. 9. Go to the Screen tab and then click Full-Screen under the Usage frame, and OK.
This should have it. -- Give it a try
David M. Blocker wrote:
Mike
Actually, under XP, I've had BETTER luck firing R:Base off a batch file than under a direct firing of R:Base, because it's the only way I've gotten R:Base to run full screen. WHen you run a batch file off an icon in XP you get a different set of options that you do if you run the EXE directly. And one of these, under the heading "Options" allows for "Full Screen".
How do YOU get R:Base DOS versions to run full screen by your method?
David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Willochell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:26 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Virtual Memory Problems, RB65++, Win2K
At 11:28 AM 11/14/2003 -0800, Dennis McGrath wrote:
In my case, the shortcut says it is running a windows NT command script (cmd extension). There are no memory settings available to tweak in the shortcut. If you need to see the script, I can supply a copy.
Hello Dennis;
It sounds as if you are executing a batch file directly. This may (or may
not)
be part of the memory allocation problem.
Try using the shortcut icon to the RBASE65.EXE that installs with RBDOS. If you no longer have it, navigate to C:\RBTI\RBDOS65 and right-click the RBASE65.EXE, select Send To, and create a Desktop Shortcut. Now, right- click this Desktop icon and select Properties. You should now see one or more tabs that contain memory settings. This is the area that I was
referring
to.
If you get this far, you will want to use this icon and revise your
startup
routine to use the "C:\RBTI\RBDOS65\RBASE65.EXE -R -C <your command file>" format in the Cmd Line field. Make sure to change the Working directory to reflect the directory of the command file that you specify in the Cmd
line.
This is the inverse of what many developers have done over the years, and works much better than the old logic. The old logic was to fire R:BASE
from
a command window either directly or via a batch file. The new logic is to use the icon to fire R:BASE directly and call the command file from
R:BASE.
I hope this helps.
Mike
