Re: Rotating the Zoomer screen 90-degrees?

Philippe DALLEMAGNE (Philippe.Dallemagne@ensem.u-nancy.fr)
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:56:21 +0100 (MET)

> Anyone ever found a way to rotate the Zoomer screen 90-degress? The reason
> I ask is that I've managed to connect my Zoomer to my workstation(HP) at work
> in order to do some terminal emulation(GeoComm) debugging for when I dial in
> from home. GeoComm works halfway decent, except that I can't get a 80x24 screen
> without having to scroll across the screen. One workaround I thought of was

No idea, but did you notice that if you are looking to the Zoomer in a
"landscape way" with the hard icons bar and the A,B buttons on the left,
everything keep in good shape, I mean the icons are still "readable" and
the buttons lies under the left hand naturally.
Q : has it been done intentionnally ? Is there a way to indicate to GEOS to
run in a "landscape" mode ?

GEOS is so configurable that it should be possible for a good programmer
or for Geoworks people to do that (they have to rewrite some libs, eg UI.GEO
and the screen coordinates management, I guess).

It could be very interesting to do that but what for (terminal emulation...) ?

> to try and hardcode a font change for GeoComm via the ini, but before I dig to
> much at that and decrease my clarity I thought I would see if someone had
> already invented this wheel.
>
> Regards,

You could use a smaller font coming from the Desktop ?

>
> Mike Shaw
> ---------
> shaw89@intrex.net
>
>
Regards,

Philippe DALLEMAGNE
pdallema@ensem.u-nancy.fr