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Date: | Sun, 23 Aug 1998 16:37:48 EDT |
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Because several people have commented that 600 lines in QCTerm was too few,
we've spent a little bit of time and reorganized QCTerm's display algorithm.
The previous display allowed only 600 rows x 200 characters, and was fixed at
that display size.
A new version of QCTerm, Version 0.60b, dated August 23, 1998, is now
available to correct this problem.
The available number of lines is now adjustable by the user (as well as the
escape sequences that control and request an 80-, 132-, and 200-character
displays). The new display settings are:
o 600 rows x 200 characters
o 900 rows x 132 characters
o 1400 rows x 80 characters
These settings are set in the "Terminal Preferences..." option of the
"Terminal" pull-down menu.
If you're curious how these numbers were arrived at, when multiplied out, they
all represent about 128K (two Visual Basic maximally-sized buffers), which is
the size of the text area we internally allocated for screen memory. The
number of rows for each size was determined by the largest even number of rows
we could insert into the buffers when VB's internal overhead was taken into
account.
Wirt Atmar
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