From: "Patrick Mitran" <pmitran AT tsp DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: VESA text in RHIDE ?
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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 14:22:59 GMT
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> > IMHO RHIDE realy should use VESA text modes, with give for example modes
> > like 130x80 etc... Free Pascal Compiler IDE can use this modes, as AFAIR
> > both are based on Turbo Vision ?
>
> Well, feel free to code it ...
>

Call me crazy, but isn't this already supported? A few years back, when I
was using a much older version of Rhide and when I had a TVGA8900
video card -- yup, that long ago-- that supported VESA test modes, I'm
pretty sure I remember using it in something like 132x50 modes.
Unfortunately, since then I've
upgraded to a Matrox Millenium and now have a Trident Ciberblade in
a laptop, neither of which support VESA text modes, so this is a non-issue
for me now.

I can think of 2 ways to use VESA modes in Rhide. First, there is an
"other" option in the preferences of the tezt mode. If I remember correctly,
just put the hex value of the mode in there (eg, 0x010A or something like
that).
You may have to tweek the value by adding a constant or something. Can't
recall.

The second option is to look on google for a program that will change text
modes
for you in DOS. I think one is called STM.EXE which you can get at
http://www.greene.xtn.net/~ecogburn/ Change video mode in DOS and then start
Rhide. I can't vouch for the program though.

You may have to run Rhide full-screen though because I think Win9x and Me
have
quite a few constraints on the size of a windowed text app.

Patrick