Re[2]: Compose Editor Produces Jumbled Letters
Sue, *** === *** === *** === *** === *** === *** === *** === *** Monday, December 30, 2002, 1:43:01 AM, you wrote: S After installing, I opened The Bat and (surprise, surprise!) my S compose screen finally works! It looks and acts exactly the way it is S supposed to. I am writing this message and actually seeing what I'm S typing! So I guess the drivers *were* the culprit after all. Okay... S I'm keeping TB for sure now. ;-) S Thanks everyone for all your help and suggestions! WooHoo!!! Gotta love it when problems get solved! Glad you got it working. ;) -- Scott Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Compose Editor Produces Jumbled Letters
Hello Sue, Sunday, December 29, 2002, 5:30:34 PM, you wrote: S Well, I've tried all the great suggestions given and nothing has S resolved the issue, although I still have yet to find updated video S drivers, which I'll do momentarily. S Actually I'm quite disappointed as I thought I had found a great email S client for an older computer... maybe mine is just too old! I did S discover that it only occurs in plain text mode, which the composer only S uses. I have it set to Rich text/HTML to read incoming messages and S everything looks normal there, but if I change it back to plain text S mode, all incoming mail looks just as horrible. Just a thought. Is all your incoming mail in the same character set? I.e. in Windows, for instance, unless you install things like Chinese, Arabic etc (non-Latin characters) all the mail you get in those languages will be garbage. Indeed, that's one of the ways I spot spam, a lot of which comes with a .tw (Taiwan) country identifier in the sender address. -- Best regards, Mikemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Compose Editor Produces Jumbled Letters
In reply to Allie's message 'Compose Editor Produces Jumbled Letters' on Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:55:53 -0500 from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AM http://www.landscreek.net/pics/text2.jpg weird. I did see something similar to this when I was attempting to overclock an old TNT graphics card, perhaps the graphics card is over heating? However, I do imagine that is rather unlikely, because just general system instability would be a major problem if that was the case. Perhaps try removing and reinstalling the graphics drivers for your graphics card, maybe they are just corrupt. -- dan. e [EMAIL PROTECTED] w http://www.danhirning.com Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Compose Editor Produces Jumbled Letters
Jonathan, JA Oh interesting. I get that from time to time. It's normally caused JA by a failure to properly refresh the screen on a scroll, and there JA can be a number of causes. As others have mentioned, drivers for JA graphics cards is one. I've often found in cases like that, JA scrolling past end of page, and back up again normally helps a bit JA as the 'editor' resends the refresh, or a minimize and restore of JA the window helps sometimes too. I would have to agree that it's graphics related. My suggestion is to be sure that the correct video drivers are installed and check to see if there are any updates on the internet that can be downloaded and installed. It could also be an interaction between TB! and another program or utility running on the system. If no problems can be found with the video drivers, try shutting down all other programs and running TB! alone. If Win95 or Win98 is the OS, use control-alt-del to bring up the task manager and highlight each running process (one at a time) *except Explorer and Sys Tray* and click END TASK. This can be a lengthy process but it assures you that very little can be interfering with what you are running. I always had to do this in the old days to burn CDs as any other process would use too much CPU time and all I would get is coasters. There was no room for error with a 133Mhz CPU... If ending processes in Task Manager causes the garbled text to go away, then it's a slow laborious process of elimination to figure out which of the processes you ended is causing the conflict. Reboot so all are running again and then end them one at a time and test with TB! till the problem goes away. The last one you ended is the most likely culprit. Good luck. -- Scott Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
