RISC User Series

Technical Queries

Readers' technical problems answered by RISC User staff

Technical Queries answered by Alan Wrigley, Tony Howat, Thomas Down and Richard Hallas

8:2			Disc drive sizes Custom Risc PC screen modes
8:3			Colouring directory icons Creating context-sensitive menus Reading information about directories of files
8:4			Using Filer_OpenDir Wimp_Initialise, Wimp version numbers and Wimp messages Amending FastWipe for E-format discs Receiving service calls in Basic programs
8:5			Detecting floppy disc formats Virtual memory explained Risc PC mode specifiers and mode strings
8:6			Setting date and time formats Accessing foreign characters
8:7			Resetting the current sound channel voice Maintaining compatibility while using Risc PC features
8:8			Altering squashed Basic programs Scaling scanned images
8:10			Generating errors using MessageTrans Improving mouse performance
9:2			(Unpublished) Using the 'Needs Help' icon flag
9:3			Using Make with the C++ compiler Compatibility of Acorn's C++ compiler with the Toolbox interface Using a serial mouse with an Archimedes
9:4			Making applications cause other applications to load text and other files Obtaining a flatbed plotter driver
9:7			Disappearing disc space Disappearing memory
9:9			Launching applications with data files Compatibility of SIMMs with Risc PCs Using a Laserjet printer with RISC OS
9:10			Releasing font handles Using fonts in window templates Dodgy floppy drives
10:1			Setting the display size of filer window Clicking windows with panes freezes the desktop
10:2			Retrieving a broken hard disc Using the font manager's new background blending feature Using the right string terminator in C
10:4			Using screen banking with high-resolution modes Incompatible old custom screen modes Understanding scanf in C
10:5			Using Wimp_PlotIcon Using BBC Basic programs on a PC
10:7			Broken left-handed menus in RISC OS 3.5 Learning to write applications in C Modern equivalents to the Advanced User Guide