Semtex for OS/2

.fullscreen mode.

Important: The fullscreen mode in Semtex is experimental. Using it is on your own risk! It works on several video adapters, but not on all. Using this feature could cause your system to crash! Never try to call the session-manager via Alt+Tab while you are in fullscreen mode. This will cause your system to crash.

After some problems with various graphic adapters we decided to turn the fullscreen mode off by default. If you want to try it you have to turn the "Fullscreen" variable in the "Semtex.cfg" to 1.

- Description
  In fullscreen mode Semtex uses the whole screen, as the name says. This does not mean that the window is maximized to fill the whole screen. Semtex will switch the resolution and takes control over all screen-activities! This feature was never fully implemented in OS/2 Warp and causes many problems. In fact: If an problem occures, the system crashes usually, because Warp tries to draw an error-message on screen and cannot do so. => The systems stops. Sometimes you can use watchcat to recover the system, but most times there is only one way out: reset.
  But, the advantages of the fullscreen mode are worth using it! Semtex is in this mode much faster and looks much better than in windowed mode! So try it out...
  To activate the fullscreen mode press Alt+Pos1. (Try out which one works...)
- Requirements
  In the configuration file the entry "PMI_FILENAME" must be set. Usually this entry should be "SVGADATA.PMI". For Elsa Winner 1000 video adapters it should be "WINNER.PMI". Sorry Matrox-users: video adapters of Matrox won't work...
  We are working on a method that should work on all vesa 1.0 compatible video adapters. You may find more information here.
- Hints
  - Never call the session-manager while you are in fullscreen mode!
  - A wrong color table after switching modes could appear. This depends on the video adapter. Enter the menu "Options", "Video" and toggle "Use System Palette". Maybe you must do this twice. This should eliminate this problem.
  - It could be safer to return to windowed mode before leaving Semtex.

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