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Posted by Derek Cornish
Apr 7, 2008 at 06:27 PM
Cassius wrote:
>I do have the display/hide pointer item and played with it. Didn’t help. By the
>way, my mouse pointer in GV is the Windows pointer.
>
>I’ve played with my touchpad
>settings also to no avail.
>
>One strange thing is that before I reinstalled Windows in
>November, the mouse pointer would work on menu items once a menu itself was opened. Now
>that doesn’t work either.
>
>One positive item. I just discovered
>that if I copy text from a Windows file, I can paste it into GV by just clicking the right
>touchpad button. Also, if I highlight text in GV and then press Enter, the text is
>copied onto the clipboard and can be pasted into a Windows file. Neither of these
>require my opening a menu.
My mouse is the IBM trackpoint found on Thinkpads, and I took a look at its settings after posting my last message. I couldn’t see anything helpful in terms of your issues, however.
I can also confirm that it is the Windows arrow pointer that I get when using GV in an ntdvm window. When I use GV full-screen, however - ie. using Alt-Enter to give GV exclusive use of the display - I get the traditional (wobbly) square block, together with pretty awful DOS fonts. In case I didn’t mention it before, my Windows pointer works in all my DOS programs that can use a mouse. For example, I still use Quicken (DOS) and PC-Write regularly and the Windows pointer can be used in them to select text, menus and menu items, etc.
On the positive items you mention, neither of those work in my setup. That certainly suggests that something is interfering with the defaults for the ntdvm window. As you say it may well be particular to your Toshiba setup. Have you tried looking in your win.ini and system.ini files to see what support for 16-bit applications they contain? Mine have a whole slew of stuff in them - none of which I have much clue about.
Lastly, do you have GV installed in any other XP computer - maybe a desktop one - and do you get the same problems there? Have you tried using an external mouse with the Toshiba?
I’ll continue thinking about this as certain XP setups do seem to have more problems than others with various aspects of running GV, although the issues seem to be different in each case (e.g., printing problems, problems changing outline labels, etc).
All the best,
Derek
Posted by Cassius
Apr 8, 2008 at 05:43 AM
Derek Cornish wrote:
>>Cassius wrote: One positive item. I just discovered that if I copy text from a Windows file, I can paste it into GV by just clicking the right touchpad button. Also, if I highlight text in GV and then press Enter, the text is copied onto the clipboard and can be pasted into a Windows file.
Neither of these require my opening a menu.
Derel wrote: >On the positive items you mention, neither of those work in my setup. That certainly suggests that something is interfering with the defaults for the ntdvm window. As you say it may well be particular to your Toshiba setup. Have you tried looking in your win.ini and system.ini files to see what support for 16-bit applications they contain? Mine have a whole slew of stuff in them - none of which I have much clue about.
>
>Lastly, do you have GV installed in any other XP computer - maybe a desktop one - and do you get the same problems there? Have you tried using an external mouse with the Toshiba?
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Derek, I, too, am clueless about Win.ini, system.ini. I have not tried on another XP machine. I did try using a trackball (Kensington Expert Mouse) on this laptop. Although it worked marvelously on a Win 2000 machine, it caused all kinds of problems on my current laptop. Whether due to the Media Center or something Toshiba added, who knows?
Finally, perhaps my easier way to cut/paste that you can’t do makes up for what you can do but I can’t. Seems like “XP giveth and XP taketh away.”
Thanks` again!
-c
Posted by Derek Cornish
Apr 8, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Cassius wrote:
>
>...Whether due to the Media Center or something Toshiba added, who
>knows?
>
>Finally, perhaps my easier way to cut/paste that you can’t do makes up for
>what you can do but I can’t. Seems like “XP giveth and XP taketh away.”
Ain’t that the truth :-)
Derek