Pole display using a monitor - New

[brucef2112]

Hey Dale,
I'm liking the BigPoleQ5 program! Most notable is the [TAB] quick start feature. Very nice ; ) (maybe posconfg will get this option soon).
Exiting the program though seems to require more work than necessary. To close, I've already hit [Esc] > [7] > [Enter]. Why do I then need to hit the Any Key to close the app? My store is open everyday except Thanksgiving. That's 364 extra keystrokes each year to close the Big Pole! And if I take a day off I'm sure to get a call at the end of the day because my clerk can't find the any key! Removing this need will certainly enrich the lives of all who use BPQ5 and may even save 4 bytes of storage by reducing its size!

Thanks for your hard work, Dale!
B

[daleadmin]

Bruce,

I have no idea. This is a QB64 thing. I tried right clicking on the icon, then [Properties] to set the "Close on exit" box but the program does not have that option.

I guess that you will have to ask small, he is our QB64 guru.

Dale

PS: can I repost your comment as "feedback" on the bigpole page?

[brucef2112]

Bruce,
.....
PS: can I repost your comment as "feedback" on the bigpole page?

Of course. re-post away!

[small]

Bruce,

Dale can easily remove the need to hit "any key" to exit the program, All he has to do is instead of just telling the program to end which requires it to ask you to press "any key", I am supposing he is using the keyword "END" replace that with the word "SYSTEM" and the program will end and automatically return you to the desktop.


Edit: He can probably exit the program by press just the ESC key.


Example:

DO
     A$ = INKEY$
     IF A$ = CHR$(27) THEN SYSTEM <======= This will exit the program and take you back to the desktop
     LOCATE 12 , 20: PRINT "Press ESC Key to Exit"
LOOP


VS.

DO
     A$ = INKEY$
     IF A$ = CHR$(27) THEN END <======= This will ask you to press any key to continue
     LOCATE 12 , 20: PRINT "Press ESC Key to Exit"
LOOP

I looked at bigpoleq5 code and all dale has to do is change one line in the goodby sub.

T# = TIMER: WHILE ABS(TIMER - T#) < 2: WEND: LOCATE 22, 1: END <============= CHANGE END to SYSTEM

[daleadmin]

I just cannot seem to stop adding features to this.

Now you can change the text or screen colors to anything you want to.

http://keyhut.com/bigpole.htm <-- look near the bottom, you can't miss it.

Dale

[small]

This is Dale's Pole display program most recent with the new change color feature.

This one has the press any key removed from it that away you don't have to press the extra key to exit.

It took all of 2 seconds to do it, but dale was too lazy too so I did it.


Download it here:

http://www.madpricer.com/bigpoleq5.exe

[brucef2112]

Small,
My norton AV says its suspicious of this file downloaded from madpricer and deleted it!
I guess I'll have to wait for dale to compile and put on keyhut site.



Message from Norton Antivirus:
c:\dospos\bigpoleq5.exe
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On computer as of
8/29/2012 at 10:16:41 PM
Last Used:
8/29/2012 at 10:32:03 PM
Startup Item: No
Launched: No
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Very Few Users
Fewer than 10 users in the Norton Community have used this file.
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Medium
This file risk is medium.
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Threat Details
There are many indications that this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe
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Origin

Downloaded from http://www.madpricer.com/bigpoleq5.exe
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http://www.madpricer.com/bigpoleq5.exe
UNTESTED

Downloaded File:
bigpoleq5.exe
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File Actions
File: c:\dospos\bigpoleq5.exe
Removed
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File Thumbprint:
c8ef91c629f74adaf14098cbb0133628373dc5d5c1132a27ce1f7818c4f33bb9
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[daleadmin]

Bruce,
My version with SYSTEM is uploaded. Same name.

Dale

[brucef2112]

Got it. Love it. Everyone has made Bruce happy!

Small,
I think the norton peeps don't trust you website. You can go here to talk to them about it.https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/insight/?w=1

If they don't fix it, *then* go for the 2.5

(I'd irc chat but the java app page isn't working for me and I really don't want to load any more software on my poor little celeron)
*bruce is in the chat ghetto.* All I can do is F5 the log page and read along. Sorry guys.

[daleadmin]

Good things come in small packages. (Yes, I am very ashamed of myself for the pun.)

If you download this on or after 9-1-12 there is a change. On screen modes 4 & 5 the letters looked a little pale and hard to read. So with help from small302 we made the letters BOLD. This required that we make the letters a tiny bit smaller to fit on the screen but they are much easier to read. A bonus is that you get two more lines on the screen.

http://keyhut.com/bigpoleq.zip

http://keyhut.com/bigpoleq5.exe

[brucef2112]

Dale,
I've been testing display on my computer at my store. Works great!
All the options are great and the eye candy for color selection is wonderful.
I guess the Celeron PC at home is just too weak to run both DHPOS and Pole.

You know the Mimo drivers allow for the rotated screen.
Any chance on getting an 480x800 screen to support the rotated 7in screens? (A long scroll)
(sorry Emery, if this takes away from more of your "Me and Dale" code play time)

[daleadmin]

Yet another new feature. To improve the readability of options 4 and 5, from the "Set display colors - Change font" option, you can choose between the Courier or Lucida Console fonts.

If I do not stop pretty soon you will be able to read screens 4 & 5 from the moon.

Someone really needs to stop me. Otherwise I will never get anything else done.

HELP!

Dale

[daleadmin]

Bruce,

Did you get the very latest version where on the 40 character per line screens you can chose between the Courier and Lucida Console font?

Here on XP I have no way, as far as I know, to change the orientation to portrait so I have no way to play with it to get it to work. Also the letters would have to be either be smaller to fit a screen width of 480 rather than 800 or I would have to display 2 lines for each item and you would get about the same number of items on the screen.

Dale

[brucef2112]

Dale. Yeah, your right, the font size would be much smaller to accommodate.

The technical issue of rotating the screen though is incorporated in the Mimo software.
I have the Mimo UM-740. with their latest drivers installed (DisplayLink-5.2.22663) and run XP sp3.
Maybe the 710 that you have is doesn't support this feature.

The Mimo 740 monitor software has an icon in the system tray which allows the various configuration changes for the monitor.
One of the selections is to Rotate screen. It can be rotated left, right. Maybe the 710 that you have doesn't support this feature.

In any case, I wouldn't expect Big Pole to actually handle the rotation of the screen. ie control the Mimo's drivers. But the Big Pole would just have a screen setting/size of 480x800 and it would be expected the user would set the screen rotated to fit the BigPole screen size.
If not, no biggie.

Again, Nice new feature on the bigpole.
later,
b

[daleadmin]

Dale saves Bruce some more key presses.

New version of bigpole is up.

You are no longer asked for the PATH when you select the screen mode. Setting the PATH is an option from the menu

The program now tests that the PATH actually exists when you enter it.

And on the "set colors" screen the white lines at the ends of the color bars have been replaced with colored lines. http://keyhut.com/big6.jpg

Dale