From: not.rooimans@euronet.nl
Dr John Stockton wrote:
>JRS: In article , dated
>Tue, 4 Apr 2006 23:02:12 remote, seen in news:comp.lang.pascal.borland,
>Marten Rooimans posted :
>
>>I just hoped someone would have found a trick to change the build-in tiling
to
>>horizontally. From the responses it seems such a trick does not exist.
>
>Of course, if you are content to work with 25-line-high windows, there
>is a trick that works.
>
>Set your IDE to 80*50, open file A once and file B three times, and
>tile. They will tile two-by-two, and you'll necessarily have an
>instance of B beside the instance of A.
>
>If you're running in real DOS, it does not take too long to get used to
>the initially-strange font; if you're running in a Windows DOS box, you
>can select any font size within reason, and some without.
>
>There should be a way of getting a Windows DOS box 132 columns wide; but
>I don't know it.
>
>Changing from the traditional 80*25 might be worth a mention in the
>mini-FAQ ??? I always use 80*50 boxes in Windows now, and often 80*50
>in BP in DOS.
>
So you assumed I was working in either DOS or from DOS boxes...
Right you are, as I never mentioned I am using the BPW.exe, working in windows
3.1 natively. I was just too preoccupied not to realise we also have BP.EXE
for a character based IDE.
Having looked at the character based IDE of the BP.EXE, I wil say to prefer
this GUI based version with some 56 lines per window due to the selected
"MS LineDraw,08" font on a 1024*768 screen. My "problem" with the manual
alignment is that it works on a per pixel basis and not on a line/character
basis, so it requires some accuracy for a proper aligment :-))
So much for laziness
Marten
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