I'm reading through Charles Petzold's Programming Windows (5th ed.) and was wondering if there is any way to see the effects of CreatePalette, RealizePalette and UpdateColors functions. I tried switching the Reduced color mode setting in the .exe properties on but it didn't seem to do anything. Should I spin up a Windows 2000 VM or is there a way to switch to 256 color mode in Windows 10
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I have a problem with OBS. I'd like to make tutorials how to do programming, teach people basics & show them, for example, how to write neural network in Java (without any ML libraries) but in order to do so, it would be great to show them my presentation about it and other windows, so recording full screen is needed (I know I could keep switching windows but it's faster and easier to display full screen). When I added the source "capture screen" the captured screen is black but audio works. I've tried to solve this problem and I went through many tutorials (like 15 or smth) and nothing has helped. I've also added a new thread in OBS Official Forum but nobody has responded. My OBS version is 25.0.4. Here is what I've tried:
- I ran the program as an administrator
- I have reinstalled it (with deleting all files and settings ~ no leftovers)
- In Nvidia Control Panel in 3D Settings I've selected OBS Studio and changed graphic processor to an integrated graphic (also tried dedicated graphic and global choice - nothing worked)
- In GForce Experience I disabled sharing
- Couple times I've restarted the computer and OBS (after any change I've done)
- I ran the OBS in compatibility mode with Windows 8 (and I've tried Windows build-in troubleshooting option)
- I ran OBS with an integrated graphic from a desktop
What I've discovered is the capturing specific window works perfectly, the problem occurs only with capturing full screen.
I have no idea what to do, please help me.
Here is what I see:
It looks like OBS just "can't see" screen, I use only one screen by the way
Black screen
though single-window capturing works perfectly
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OBS Settings vol.1
OBS Settings vol.2
Logs:
https://obsproject.com/logs/NMexpZp-b4nXDxLl
Specifications of my computer:
I use a laptop - MSI GF 63 8RC
- Intell Core i5 8300H
- GForce GTX 1050 (actualizations are installed) 4GB VRAM
- Windows 10 Home, 64bit (updated to version 1909)
- 16GB RAM
- FHD Screen (1920x1080)
You will need to change the Graphic for this app to integrated graphic
I had the same problem in the virtual machine And I solved it this way go to virtual machine setting
in display section uncheck Accelerate 3D graphics
The problem was solved and the recording was done correctly.
Hi I got a lil problem with a mobile handheld computer (Motorola MC9200) running Windows CE 7.0.
Within the browser (Internet Explorer + software like Naurtech CETerm) there is some font-smoothing or cleartype. Problem about that is that , and font with a css style of font-weight 900 for example look exactly the same as normal font. So you can't tell the difference.
Another problem would be the panning. I'm running a fullscreen web application and the user shouldn't be able to pan the whole screen 1 cm out. Funny thing is while the user is panning the whole picture the font-smoothing/cleartype is disabled and you can tell the difference between font-weights.
Anyone no a solution to that? I already searched the registry for cleartype and font but didn't find anything helpful. I don't have other WinCE 7.0 devices so I don't know if that problem is WinCE 7.0 related or related to the device.
I don't have a device at hand, but WEC 7.0 offers the SystemParametersInfo function that sounds a bit like what you're after.
Call it with uiAction set to SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING to disable ClearType on a system-wide basis:
SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, FALSE, NULL, SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
Earlier versions of Windows CE had a registry setting to allow OEM's to disable ClearType, but I've been unable to locate this setting in WEC 7.0, so my guess is it's no longer supported and ClearType is always enabled by default.
When I run my Windows 8.1 app inside Windows 10 preview (build 10240 and also all prior versions) all controls are quite tiny.
Normally the screen has 1366x768 physical pixels (and a scaling factor of 1.0 was reported).
When running the Windows 8.1 app inside Windows 10, a logical resolution of 1645.783... x 925.301... is reported (and still a scaling factor of 1.0 is reported).
Windows 10 then seems to downscale the 1645.783... x 925.301 "pixels" to the 1366x768 physical pixels which leads in notably smaller controls (while more content is shown)
The "magic factor" is 1.2048... which is exactly 1.0 / 0.83.
I know that Windows 10 has new scaling plateus. But this all does not make sense at all. The artificial scaling has an akward factor. Actually, leaving 1366x768 (#1.0) would be perfect. I consider this as a serious bug.
What is Windows 10 doing?
(I could port my Win 8.1 app to Win 10 so that the scaling would be OK again, but I would like to wait some months till the tools are really ready)
In Windows 10 display scaling affects both desktop apps and Windows apps. In Windows 8 however, display scaling only affected desktop apps. Your issue might be linked to this. Check your display scaling in Settings > System > Display > "Change the size of text, apps and other items".
In a Windows desktop application written in C# and running on Windows 8 how can I detect if Windows 8 is in desktop mode (i.e. showing the Desktop rather than the modern UI)?
Although it's in C++, the Start Screen Visibility Sample should be a good starting point for you. It uses COM objects to get the state of all monitors on the system that are either displaying Windows Store Apps or the Start Screen, and illustrates how to receive notifications when the state of a monitor changes or when the visibility of the Start screen changes.
I have a vb.net Windows Forms app using the 4.0 framework. When I run the application on an XP machine, the color of my controls all match what the are set to in my IDE, which is also an XP machine.
When I run this application on a Windows 7 machine, the colors are all changed.
Any ideas why this is and how I can make Windows 7 match my Development machine?
David
Windows forms are going to take on whatever "theme" the machine they are running on has enabled - which is by design. Honestly, it wouldn't make sense for a windows form running on Windows 7 to look like an XP windows form. Could you give some sort of context for why you want your windows form to look like it's always running on XP?
You can use the BackColor property of the button to change the background color. The ForeColor property will change the text color.
Edit: added the below after playing around some.
Try ensuring the "UseVisualStyleBackColor" property on your button is set to False. Playing around I noticed that when this is true, the system ignores my background color selection and uses the machine default. When False, my background color was used.
I found this too. My VB6 project was fine in Windows XP.
I just moved to Windows 7 and copied the project folder to this machine.
My splashscreen backcolour was supposed to be white but it was black now.
The backcolour had been set to &H80000009& which was white in winXP but in Windows 7 it gives black.
So I changed backcolour to &H80000005& and it is now white again.