[Virtualacorn-list] Failed to create primary surface.

[Dave]

In article <10c64fe485eaefe38a1f12740bc755eb at wingsandbeaks.org.uk>,
   Jeremy Nicoll - ml VA via Virtualacorn-list
<virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk> wrote:
> On 2019-11-28 13:44, Barry Punchard via Virtualacorn-list wrote:
> > On 27 Nov          virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk wrote:

> > When VRPC is in a window (and sometimes when not), Ctrl, Alt, Delete to
> > bring up the Win7 Task Manager, always leads this fault.

> I would not expect that to happen if the VRPC window does not have 
> 'focus'.

> So, if VRPC is in a window, move the window aside and click on the 
> Windows
> desktop, then do Ctrl-Alt-Delete.  Or (if it's like W8, right-click a
> blank bit of the taskbar & choose Task Manager off the context menu).

> It's been a while since I last used VRPC, but when I did I defined a 
> custom
> mmonitor modefile so that the maximum size window was just a few pixels 
> less
> wide than the laptop's screen, so I could always get a mouse pointer 
> onto a
> non-VRPC-window part of the desktop.  Back then, amongst other things, 
> an
> alert from any other program (most likely antivirus or firewall) could 
> pop
> up behind the VRPC window and if one could not get to it the machine 
> could
> appear to be hung.
 
> Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own

Interesting how varied are the things that set an Ftcps going.

Many years of using various version of VRPC has fixed in my bonce a few
things to always do...

The most important is Alt+Return out of VRPC to Windows if anything
Windows is required... Particularly if you use UniServer to send things
from RISC OS to the Win side. (Browser, Word, Excel, PDF etc...)

Dave

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Dave Triffid