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Hi Oli,

On 2023-02-24 16:31:22, I wrote to you:

 Ol>> The text and colors looks fine with "wine FConfigW32". I'm slightly
 Ol>> optimistic that it will work.

 WvV> Ok, we'll see. I have done the coding last night to switch to the Windows
 WvV> Console API way of getting the keyboard input in FConfig. Which seems to
 WvV> work fine, but I want to do a bit more testing, in windows (xp), before
 WvV> trying it in wine, and making it available for public testing. ;-)

In the real windows everything seems to work fine. The Alt- key presses
now work as they should, they were actually broken in the old code and behaved
as if you pressed the key without the Alt key. As a result I even discovered a
little easter egg. ;-) (When you press and hold Alt, and press the a, b, o, u
and t keys in sequence you get an information window with the compile date of
the program.) This only works in the new Beta (link below).

In wine the results are poor, to very poor:


With wine-1.8.6:

wineconsole --backend=user FConfigW32.exe
  Not everything is visible but it seems to respond correctly to all keys, but
since the screen is mostly not updated you don't see everything you do.

wineconsole --backend=curses FConfigW32.exe
  I don't have the right font, and or terminal settings, because line drawing
characters aren't showing right. For the rest the results are similar to the
above.

wine FConfigW32.exe
  Only the text from the copyright header is just printed to the next line in
regular terminal colors. Other then that nothing is on screen, and you can't
do anything except pressing Ctrl-c to put it out of it's misery.


With wine-7.0:

wineconsole --backend=user FConfigW32.exe
  This looks perfectly ok when started. But not everything is redrawn as it
should as a response to key presses. So nothing seems to happen, on some key
presses, but that's only optical. When you go into a submenu, you get the
right one.

wine FConfigW32.exe
  The screen looks the same as with wineconsole 1.8.6 and --backen=curses. But
there is no response to key presses, instead you see the ansi sequences
printed on screen.


In conclusion, some of the above is usable in case of emergency and you know
your way around, but for everyday use it isn't. But I'm keeping the new key
code, it works better in windows and in wine...

If any one wants to try it:

https://fmail.vlzn.nl/files/FConfigW32-2.2.1.0-Beta.zip


Bye, Wilfred.

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