Graphics Characters

[oldfart]

My application runs on both W2K and XP clients. When in full screen mode the graphics characters appear correctly. However, pressing Alt-Enter to get it into a window the characters appear differently. Does anyone know how to fix this

 

[dbmc]

Change the font in the window by Right clicking on the title bar and selecting Properties. Try setting the font to 10x18 (Raster Font).
Garry

 

[oldfart]

Thanks Garry. I tried the Raster fonts and it made no difference.

 

[dbmc]

Are there specific characters that don't work? When you say 'appear differently', how do you mean - do they appear as another character altogether, a blank,etc?
Garry

 

[oldfart]

The symbol most commly used is a small tick in a box. This appears correctly in full screen mode, but in a window comes up as ¦Ì?when the box is un-ticked and ¦Ï?when the box is ticked. from the code it looks like the following CHr() are used. Chr(221), Chr(12), Chr(222), Chr(216)
Phil

 

[Bozz]

I start the app with a batch file and include the line:
Mode con cp select=437
and all the double/single boxes work.

Type Mode /? at a command prompt for the syntax, you get:
Select code page: MODE CON[:] CP SELECT=yyy

Ian Boys
DTE Systems Ltd

 

[oldfart]

Thanks Bozz.
The mode command does change the character display, but not to the character I want. I've look at the documentation for Mode Con on the internet and it all seems to be a bit of hit and miss as to which character set to use.

 

[Bozz]

I actually used the font editor to create a couple of custom characters, which worked great in DOS only. But then you the software in a Window and it didn't seem such a good idea after all.

Ian Boys
DTE Systems Ltd