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Windaube / HDPMI=??? / GVFM (Announce)

posted by jaybur Homepage E-mail, UK, 19.12.2007, 22:40

> > But isn't HDPMI supposed to not return a Windows version via
> > 2Fh/160Ah when the environment variable HDPMI is set to 32?
>
> NO. It's HDPMI=16384 and works for me.
Oh, right. Anyway, I've now changed GV so it uses 2Fh/1600h.

> About GVFM:
>
> The "Persistent A accessing bug" seems not to depend from a directory beginning with A - rather fully random, get it on all HD partitions,

Ok.

> even worse, putting drive A on the ban list doesn't help, although it disappears from the A...Z list.
That is very surprising, because then GVFM has no object with which to "talk" to that drive. :confused:

> It's pretty frequent and really annoying. :-(
Yes I can imagine. Well at least you've given me some clues as to where to start looking - thanks very much. One thing worth trying (if you haven't already) is to make sure you have a floppy formatted with a serial number - old formatters and old DOS's don't do this. I can't imagine this will stop the accesses completely though, because without a "changeline", GVFM will still need to read the floppies serial number to see if it has changed.

I don't know what your Pascal skills are like, but I could send you the entire source for both GV and GVFM if you want. The same goes for Laaca, RayeR, Rugxulo and Japheth. You would also need Borland Pascal 7 and TASM 3.2 (supplied with BP7).

Another possibility is for me to make a special version of GVFM that logs all disk accesses to a file and/or to a display window (like the "Editor History" window. This will take me a day or so (maybe more) to do though.

> Full image converting functionality, incl. PNG ? COOL :-)

Yes.

> But for screenshots, BMP is perfectly sufficient
Very true, but I don't want to waste my time hacking some code together just so that GVFM can do screen-shots.

> ... screenshot saving should not
> be messed up with things like "JPEG subsampling" or "DCT algorithm
> precision" :-P Maybe a choice of BMP or PNG without any further options.
If only it were that simple. :-|

> > The Browser tab contains only settings that affect the currently focused browser window. The other two tabs have global affect.
> Seems to work as supposed, but is confusing nevertheless. Maybe split into
> "Browser options", "Global appearance", and "System".
Yes, the two global tabs could do with being placed in their own dialog box.

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