[Virtualacorn-list] Windows panes flashing under dead full-screen RO

[Roger Darlington]

On 15 Nov 2010, Chris Hughes  wrote:
> In message <d6979c7651.rogerarm at rogerarm.freeuk.com>
>           Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:


>> I am using Windows 7 64 bit version and VA-RPC Adjust 4.39 with ARM
>> 7500 core.

>> A much more serious anomaly sometimes afflicts this set-up.

>> Sometimes, for apparently no? reason, the full-screen RO window
>> becomes completely dead, and if you click anywhere on the screen, then
>> momentarily the Windows panes underneath become temporarily visible: a
>> momentary flash of the windows. Unfortunately, you have to be
>> exceedingly careful where you click on the RO desktop when it is like
>> this, because although the RO is completely dead, the Windows
>> furniture underneath it isn't!

> There is always a reason.

>> There seems to be no way out of this situation. All RO furniture is
>> dead, nothing does anying when you click on it, but all the momentary
>> visible windows underneath it are alive!

> yes there is away out of this. Press ALT-ENTER/RETURN key together
> this pushes the VA full screen into a normal Winodws window and then
> do ALT -ENTER/RETURN again and you are back to normal. Its some
> background task on windows causing issuew (Zone Alarm was a regular
> cause of this or some other urgent update notification)

But <ALT-RET> is exactly the same as <ALT-ENTER/RETURN>, isn't it? and 
it DOES NOTHING, just as I said...

>> This may be related to UniPrint somehow?

> Unlikely

>> I don't know how to work UniPrint (I have no instructions) and
>> occasionally I seem to activate it un--awares without knowing. This
>> kills RO leaving the RO window on top of live windows underneath, just
>> as described above.

> Why not ask R-Comp for another copy of the instructions, they are
> usually supplied as text files with the updates anyway.

>> ALT-RET does nothing.
>> ALT-Gr-BRK does nothing.

> Wrong keys to press...... see above.

But <ALT-RET> is exactly the same as <ALT-ENTER/RETURN>, isn't it? and 
it DOES NOTHING, just as I said...

>> The only thing I can seem to do in this situation is to CTRL-ALT-DEL.
>> Not a very satisfactory state of affairs.

> See above.

>> What is going on?

> You need to sort out getting the UniPrint instructions you don't say
> which version you have?

>> I assume it is a bug, because if it's a feature, then its a feature I
>> could very well do without. But where is the bug? Windows 7? UniPrint.
>> VA?

> Its not a bug really but an interaction between Windows and a full
> screen VA windows application. VA is just an application running on
> Windows.

When is a bug not a bug. And this is a really nasty bug. RO is not 
preserved at all afterwards.




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Cheers
Roger
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