Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:46:34 11/22/04
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On November 22, 2004 at 13:45:59, F. Huber wrote: >On November 22, 2004 at 12:28:09, John Merlino wrote: > >>On November 22, 2004 at 07:02:40, F. Huber wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>a few days ago I got the old ChessMaster 4000 Turbo, but it has a small >>>(but annoying) bug: >>>Whenever I open a menu, the menu bar is no longer ok - the menu titles don´t >>>have their original positions but are placed too far left. >>>Since almost all CM versions had some updates/patches, I´ve looked for such >>>a CM4000 patch and found informations, that there has been such a patch, >>>but had no success in actually finding it (at the Ubisoft site these patches >>>only start with CM6000). >>>So does anyone know a link where to download this CM4000 patch? >>>Or maybe somebody has this file and could send it to me by email? >>> >>>BTW one other question: >>>Which was the _first_ CM version having TheKing (from Johan de Koning) as it´s >>>chess engine? (and what what the version number of this King?) >>> >>>Best regards, >>>Franz. >> >>If you were running the program on Windows 95 or 3.1, you probably wouldn't see >>this problem. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure you won't be able to get around it. >>Your only option is to try the Program Compatibility Wizard, which you should >>find in your "Accessories" group of your Start Menu, and select "Windows 95". >> >>I doubt it will work, though.... >> >>jm > >Hello John, > >thanks for your answer! > >Since it´s about CM (although an old one), I hoped you would answer. ;-) > >I´m running it here on Win98, so there should be no really difference to Win95, >but I´ve tried now some compatibilty settings with MKCOMPAT - no success! > >But I´m quite sure it´s rather a bug in CM4000 than any compatibility problem. >Although it´s not easy to describe it (especially for _me_ in English ;-)), >I´ll try it: >When I start CM4000 (or whenever the program window is completely redrawn, e.g. >after changing the board or the window size), all items in the menu bar are >displayed a _little_ bit too large (width and height), so that it doesn´t >correspond correctly to the region for a mouse click. >And when I click at one of these menu items and then move the mouse within >this menu bar, all those items are redrawn again (over the existing menu), >but not at their original positions (but a little bit left of it). >So of course the complete menu bar gets messed up. >Even worse is this situation when I make the program window smaller, so that >this menu bar is displayed on more than one line - then the shown menu items >are at completely other positions than the areas for mouse clicks. > >So it seems to me that CM4000 has internally two different sets of values >(size&position) for this menu items - using _one_ for redrawing the program >window, and the _other_ for mouse clicks!? > >Best regards, >Franz. Very old Mindscape/Software Toolworks programs, such as Chessmaster 4000, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, etc., used a custom GUI library that was the predecessor to the one used in current versions of Chessmaster. I don't have Chessmaster 4000, but I do have Mavis Beacon 3, which was created about the same time. It exhibits the same problem, even though I'm running Windows XP. So, I'm afraid that there is no way to fix it. You should be able to use the keyboard to run the menu, though, just like with any Windows program. jm
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