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Joyous Day! I got GrandView running on my MacBook
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Posted by Jack Crawford
Oct 8, 2009 at 10:51 PM
I have given up on my XP installation for the time being.
I could get it to run OK (without a dos emulator) and eventually got the window size as I wanted it (thanks to Cassius et al).
However the cut and paste was frustrating. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t. I couldn’t work out what was behind the intermittent behaviour.
Haven’t time at the moment for further experimentation.
Jack
Posted by Derek Cornish
Oct 9, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Steve,
Congratulations on getting Grandview working on the MAC. That’s very encouraging to know.
Why not try running it in XP via VMFusion without DOSBox? I’ve always found GV to work fine in native XP, so I imagine it should work under VMFusion too.
Derek
Posted by Derek Cornish
Oct 10, 2009 at 02:18 AM
Jack,
When you have time to get back to it, there are two things to consider:
1. It’s easy to get the “marking” part wrong if one is in a hurry. Selecting a block of text with the mouse, as in a windows program, will appear to mark text in Grandview - i.e., it will be highlighted. But in fact, this only marks text for work within GV. For cutting and pasting between GV and other programs you must click on the GV icon in the top left-hand corner of the dos window to bring up the system menu. Then select Edit>Mark before actually going into the text and marking your selection with the mouse*. Luckily - at least on my laptop - there is a recognizable difference in the colour and brightness of the highlighting when doing it correctly.
*Alternatively for those preferring keyboard shortcuts, Alt+Space will get you to the menu, and E, K will invoke the highlighter, but I find that the marking itself can only be done with the mouse (not by using Shift-arrow keys).
2. If I remember rightly, TameDOS allows one to use the normal Windows shortcut keys for cutting and pasting from GV to Windows programs.
Hope this helps.
Derek
Posted by Cassius
Oct 10, 2009 at 02:39 AM
Derek Cornish wrote:
>Steve,
>
>Why not try running it in XP via VMFusion without DOSBox? I’ve
>always found GV to work fine in native XP, so I imagine it should work under VMFusion
>too.
>
>Derek
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GV may work well for Derek under XP, but not so for me. He and I have discussed this and we are running under the same settings, I believe, but the operation of GV under each of our XP systems is different. My GV is far more crippled under XP.
-c
Posted by Derek Cornish
Oct 10, 2009 at 07:08 PM
Cassius wrote:
>GV may work well for Derek
>under XP, but not so for me. He and I have discussed this and we are running under the same
>settings, I believe, but the operation of GV under each of our XP systems is different.
>My GV is far more crippled under XP.
>-c
Yes, this is strange but true. We never did find the answer. XP seems at once finicky and erratic in its handling of DOS programs. on the whole I think WIN98 may have done a better job as it had DOS 7.1. Added to this is the fact that successive Service Packs applied to XP (I’m on SP3) have also probably played a role in further “individuating” all our windows setups.
Derek