[time-nuts] Lady Heather's Fat Client

[Mike Naruta AA8K]

Oh, I thought it was my PC.
Neat John, we like recycled code.

The KE5FX remote access is fun too, works well.

I'm surprised that your antenna receives so well,
being at -7.6 m.  Doesn't it get wet?


(I know; I'm just trying to be funny)


Mike - AA8K



John Miles wrote:
> Hi, Mike --
> 
> Correct, that's not a bug, and it won't change unless/until the program is
> rewritten with a new graphics library.
> 
> In fullscreen mode there's no window border, so the 1024x768 display surface
> can accommodate the 1024x768 client area.  When you hit F11 to go back to
> windowed mode on a machine with a 1024x768 desktop, there's no room for the
> window border and caption bar that surrounds the client area, so the
> graphics system has to downsample the client area to fit.
> 
> Back when the graphics library was written, in an era when 33 MHz processors
> were still common, it was much faster to downsample by factors of two than
> to incrementally shrink the image to fit.  So you will always get the tiny,
> cramped display window in cases where you request a resolution in window
> mode that can't fit on the desktop.
> 
> -- john, KE5FX
>