Scroll bars and installation

[Sotak246]

One of the programs several of us discovered earlier to run Aurora on laptops is ResizeEnable, a freeware program.  The program lets you resize all windows, even those normally not resizeable.  It can be found with a google seach.  I have found it  very helpful in running Aurora on my laptop, giving me access to the entire window.

Mark

[welchbloke]

One of the programs several of us discovered earlier to run Aurora on laptops is ResizeEnable, a freeware program.  The program lets you resize all windows, even those normally not resizeable.  It can be found with a google seach.  I have found it  very helpful in running Aurora on my laptop, giving me access to the entire window.

Mark

The only reason I can play Aurora (and hence remain sane when away from home; well sane-ish ) on my laptop is through using ResizeEnable.  I'm sure there are other programs available but this one works for me.

[Darkone]

With regard to install issues on Vista and Windows7. I don't use those operating systems and I hope I won't be held responsible if Microsoft don't make their operating systems more backwardly compatible. However, the common problems and solutions have been posted on here by very helpful members of this forum so I would recommend reading those.

Anyone receiving the "3061 error from the DAO database: too few parameters, expecting 1" error, either has mismatched versions of the database and program, which means they may not have followed the installation instructions and should uninstall and re-install, or they have the decimal separator issue, in which case they need to change that in their regional setting.

Would just like to say first, that running Windows 7 x64 Professional, I have had no problems whatsoever with compatibility, other than 64 bit ones, and far less than I have heard about XP64. I have also found Win7 to run faster, and more responsive than my ole XP  :wink:


Otherwise, I would just like to say that the game seems neat to me, although so far I have gotten stuck after realizing at around part 3 of the tutorial, that I actually can't see the bottom of the shipyard window, due to the 16:10 1440x900 settings I'll have to try 360

[sloanjh]

I think I remember seeing some people say that they could go to the settings tab of the display properties and set the card to a bigger resolution than there were pixels - Windows would then do the virtual desktop scrolling for you.  Now that I mention it, I remember getting into this mode on one of my (work) laptops a long time ago - it took me a while to figure out what was causing this annoying behavior

Don't know if the above will work on Vista or 7.

John

[Darkone]

I believe that's for XP only, and it seems to not work 100% of the time. Currently, 1400x1050 works well enough

[welchbloke]

Apparently, resize enable does not work in windows 7, although it was a far fetch to expect it to work on a different OS than it was intended for.

I'm running Resize Enable on Windows 7 with no issues.

[head]

I just came in to say hi and im for bay12 too.

awesome game.

[Poojawa]

I have to bump this... but I've tried the resizer program....

>.> and it doesn't really work for anything D:

Oh sure, it shirnks the windows, but it either microficates the buttons/tabs/arrows etc, or it just flat out breaks the window. I have 3 examples as well :

Economics is fine without shrinking, but task bar is minimized.


Ship design without changing window size


and after.


I'm fine without scroll bars... but it would be useful to have some sort of fuctionality to adjust how big spaces are, and clear up a ton of the 'dead zone' near the bottoms of windows and such. Most retailers don't sell anything more than widescreen nowadays, so people would need to pay additional fees to get such online :/

Dwarf Fortress from Bay 12 solves issues with screen resolutions via:

Code: [Select]

This is the size and font for windowed mode.  Changing to 800x600 and the 800x600 font might make you happier.

[WINDOWEDX:640]
[WINDOWEDY:300]
[FONT:curses_640x300.bmp]

Full screen info.

[FULLSCREENX:800]
[FULLSCREENY:600]
[FULLFONT:curses_800x600.bmp]

This is the dimensions in tiles of the display grid.  Minimum x is 80.  Minimum y is 25.  Maximums are 200.  Make sure the window size or full screen resolution matches the grid/tile size if you don't want the display to be squashed or stretched.  The default windowed font has tiles that are 8x12 pixels, for instance, so for a 80x25 grid, you use a 640x300 window, and for a 125x50 grid, you'd use a 1000x600 window.  FULLGRID is used in full screen mode, whether graphics is on or not.

[GRID:80:25]
[FULLGRID:80:25]


with assorted code, users are able to input to adjust the screen to what they need/like. So you can still have the normal 1024, but for some others who'd love to dig around inside this game and become eager to contribute what they can, but can't with a max of 900 vertical screen realestate, and no option to adjust it limits to just a laptop (which might not always be in use) or somehow getting a second Monitor.

overall, it's really just being able to adjust positioning of the data if needed, so that we can play it on a wider scale of monitors.

[personofshadow]

Resizer does the same thing for me, I can screw up the window but I can't get at the stuff at the bottom. How are people getting this to fix the problem?

[AussieGuy]

IM from bay12 as well and had no problems setting up. I have to say thanks to magnus for showing us this wonderful game

[mrwigggles]

However, I would like to point out he should stop playing this game and get back to work on prospector! 8>

[Summercat]

A bit of a late reply...

Steve, I love the game. I honestly do, especially after suddenly getting the urge to play it and finding it still ongoing. But...

My monitor on both my laptop and my new desktop are widescreen, and their "Don't make this look like crud" settings end up hiding certain buttons. Specifically, the 'New' button on the ship design screen. ...which is kind of important.

Took me an hour to realize I had to change the settings before opening that window, but that was an hour of me having to mess with that setting as opposed to enjoying the game =\

[Decimator]

I'm from bay12 as well.  I also had a 1440x900 monitor until quite recently when I got a free monitor(The monitor supposedly had issues, none of which I've seen. Score!)  Until I got that monitor though, I was unable to play.  Now that I have it, I've been playing Aurora pretty much non-stop.

[praguepride]

Another bay12'er here. You'd be surprised at how nice a compliment Aurora got being described as the "dwarf fortress of 4x"

I know I was sold