HELP: Status line disappears in Waffle for DOS

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2 total messages Started by Mark Buckaway Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:35

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Author: Mark Buckaway
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:35

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Does anyone else have the problem whereby the top status line disappears when
the screen is scrolled. The status bar is reclaimed when the screen is cleared
by the data on the status line is lost and whatever text happened to be there
is kept from scrolling.

Note, this happens on three different machines and the VIDEO selection in the
STATIC file makes no difference. Also, this occurs with or without and ANSI
driver.

This is extremely annoying as I have no idea who is every online. My rumaging
through the source code has turned up nothing other than it appears Tom is not
trapping all the necessary DOS/BIOS calls required to keep the status line on
the top of the screen. This problem make me feel like re-writing the DOS.C
file from scratch using only Borland's CONIO functions....

Help! Anyone?
Mark

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Re: HELP: Status line disappears in Waffle for DOS

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Author: Thomas E. Dell
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:39

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>Does anyone else have the problem whereby the top status line disappears when
>the screen is scrolled. The status bar is reclaimed when the screen is cleared
>by the data on the status line is lost and whatever text happened to be there
>is kept from scrolling.

>This is extremely annoying as I have no idea who is every online. My rumaging
>through the source code has turned up nothing other than it appears Tom is not
>trapping all the necessary DOS/BIOS calls required to keep the status line on
>the top of the screen. This problem make me feel like re-writing the DOS.C
>file from scratch using only Borland's CONIO functions....

No, it is not as simple as that. If you did this, anyone with a CGA
(and certain other kinds of video cards) would kill you. CONIO is incredibly
slow under those circumstances. What we have now (a mix) is a compromise
that's the fastest on average for all systems. But it still isn't perfect on
all systems (ie, yours.)

--Tom

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