[arachne] Re: Maximal width of virtual screens

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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:56:14 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:

> Hi Glenn,

>>> which gave me trouble, and found that I could only raise the width to
>>> a maximum of 1337; for larger values, Arachne stopped generating a
>>> virtual screen altogether.

>>> Do you have any idea why larger values do not work?

>> The major problem with that page is not its width...
>> but rather is its length.

>> It takes 60 hits of the pagedown key to reach the bottom when in
>> 1024x768 res at fullscren mode.

>> When means that a virtual screen would need to be over 46000 lines.

> of course the page does not fit into a virtual screen because of its
> length, but why would this affect the maximal width of the virtual
> screen? The length of the page should not be a problem unless one
> scrolls it half way to the bottom, just as the width of a page does
> not keep Arachne from generating a VS unless one scrolls to the right.
> However, in this case it is not the length of the page that keeps
> Arachne from generating a VS but the maximal width of the VS. Mind
> that Arachne does not simply stop using a VS for values larger than
> 1337 when I scroll it to the right or the bottom, it simply doesn't
> use a VS right away.

> Regards,

> Udo

You were actually able to get a VS generated on this page ???
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Discussion.Discussions

Which version of Arachne are you using ?

Here in v1.95;GPL.... I can't get a VS generated for that page
regadless of my BMPwidth setting or virtualscreen length setting.
All that happens when I hit Ctrl+P is that I get the message...
"No virtual screen to export"

Please do a big favor for me.....

Set your BMPwidth & virtualscreen length to where you have been able
to get a VS generated & while visiting that page and you get a VS....
hit Ctrl+P to make a screen-cap of the entire HTML screen.

Then please email the resulting BMP image to me at.....
glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxxxx
(along with... what screen res & color depth you are set for..
 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and is it 256c or Hicolor
 and the settings for BMPwidth & virtualscreen length)

Also how much XMS is shown as being used while visiting that page
and getting the VS generated.
(as shown in the Alt+M info box... Used XMS (KB) nnnnnn)

That way I can see how much memory is required to do a VS at that page
and perhaps using that info I can diagnose what's going wrong and how
to fix it.

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