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

[Chris Hughes]

In message <dcada47651.rogerarm at rogerarm.freeuk.com>
          Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:

> 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...

In effect yes and it works here fine if that happens. You must have a 
odd set-up on your PC.

What firewall and anti-virus packages are you using?


>>> 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.

Have you contacted R-Comp for the instructions yet?

Which version of Uniprint are you using on RISC OS side and the 
Windows side to ensure you have the correct matched pair.



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>>> 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.

Its not RO its Windows, Virtual Acorn is just a Windows application 
like any other application.

You have to give us more details of what applications are run on the 
Windows side. As I said, Anti-Virus, screen savers, Firewall, etc.. So 
we can stop those apps interfering with VA when its full screen.






-- 
Chris Hughes