Topic: Wacky windows??? (1 of 5), Read 128 times
Conf: Installation, Configuration
From: Deleted User
Date: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 08:52 AM

Deez windows is makin me wacky!!!

I am using NT 4.0. When I start Vedit from the command prompt the window is not maximized and I have to maximize it. When I start from the shortcut on the desk top Vedit is maximized. How can I get the program to fill up the screen so I can get to some serious Perling?

Thanks,
Dan King
Baltimore, MD

 

Topic: Re: Wacky windows??? (2 of 5), Read 136 times
Conf: Installation, Configuration
From: Ted Green
Date: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 06:34 PM

At 09:18 AM 2/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Deez windows is makin me wacky!!!

Yes, this is a know problem. If you start VEDIT PLUS from the NT
command prompt, e.g. with the command "vpw", it will not start
maximized. It works fine with Win95/98.

I thought this was just an artifact of Windows NT, but after
checking today, I see that WordPad can start maximized from the
NT command line.

Since we have already tried very hard to fix this, I cannot promise
when it will be fixed. (If it occurs under Win2000 we will fix it,
otherwise we may not.)

My only suggestion is to resize the VEDIT program as large as
possible.

 

Topic: Wacky windows??? (3 of 5), Read 132 times
Conf: Installation, Configuration
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 06:04 AM


Dan,

as workaround you can write a little batch file (e.g. vw.bat) with the contents:

@echo off
start "VEDIT" /MAX c:\vedit\vpw.exe

Then you can call that batch VW instead of vpw.exe. (You should move that batch into a folder included in your PATH, of course.)

Christian

 

Topic: Wacky windows??? (4 of 5), Read 134 times
Conf: Installation, Configuration
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 09:42 AM


or better:

start "VEDIT" /MAX c:\vedit\vpw.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

if you call the batch with parameters.


Christian

 

Topic: Re: Wacky windows??? (5 of 5), Read 131 times
Conf: Installation, Configuration
From: Ted Green
Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 10:51 AM

At 08:03 AM 2/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>start "VEDIT" /MAX c:\vedit\vpw.exe

Thank you for this info, which I didn't know about. It's amazing
how many "under-documented" commands the NT command prompt has.
This will help us debug the problem too.