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I am running Windows 10. If I start a selection and very slowly move the mouse then after 10 seconds the deselection disengages. What I mean by that is the screen does a brief flicker and continuing to move the mouse no longer causes the text to be selected. Has anyone else seen that behavior? -Doug...

How does the wrapper code look like? If you save a wrapped view to a file you must implement the Externalize and Internalize methods appropriately. In my experience, wrapping a view is not a trivial task but it should be possible to get it working. - Josef I have adopted the Obx version of wrapping...

Not enough details to really know, but ... 1 - Can you turn forwarding back on when you don't save the View? 2 - Do you Externalise the forward flag (variable) when you externalize the Wrapper? 3 - Does the Wrapper have other state that should be kept from session to session? "1 - Can you turn...

Wow, I just learned something. It turns out that a wrapped view retains the fact that it was wrapped when one saves the document. I have been experimenting with wrapping and unwrapping views so I can switch between passing characters to the view (standard mode) and passing them to a command interpre...

I just encountered a situation I haven't seen before. A document that I could access and had been editing for several days suddenly became uneditable. It behaves as if it were in mask mode but when I do Dev-> none of the Edit, Layout, Browser, or Mask modes are checked. I can not change the mode. I ...

A Windows "service" is a special kind of .exe that follows the Windows "service" conventions. It can be started automatically when Windows is booted, if set up accordingly. In particular, it does not need a user to be logged in and usually it does not provide a GUI but writes ev...

I am currently working on a project requested by a neighbor that schedules files backups. It will be called Backup.exe. That "service?" generates 3 other files which hold (1) the tasks to be run as created by the user (2) preferences of what to include in a log file (3) the log file Is tha...

Hi everybody! I would be very interested if anybody could share his or her experience with running BlackBox (or a BlackBox based application) as a Windows "service". What is needed for that purpose, I mean any third party tools or can it run out-of-the-box? Thanks in advance for any comme...

Open the settings app of Win10, select colors, select a color, activate "show color in title". Don't know how it is phrased exactly in the english version. - Josef Josef, I did that. Look closely at my examples comparing 10 with XP. Notice that the outer title colors are indeed changed to...

It occurs to me that some WinApi calls might allow one to change the colors of Windows 10
to what I had with Windows XP. Has anyone tried that?
-Doug Danforth