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| Posted: 05:16am 27 Sep 2025 |
latest builds of GFXterm are available here:
https://github.com/robert-rozee/GFXterm/tree/test/binaries
have worked through the problems with Graeme and resolved the GFXterm issue. older versions of GFXterm had the screen dimensions hard-coded, while newer versions (2023 onwards) allow the dimensions to be set by the user at runtime. the editor problems being seen just required setting the screen dimensions to 80 x 40 thus:
1. right-click within the terminal window (or press alt-M) and,
2. select "screen size" from the dropdown menu. this will then
3. pop up a window allowing you to adjust the number of columns and rows;
4. finally click the "OK" button to permanently save the new values.
for 640x480 VGA and an 8x12 editor font, the correct dimensions are 80 columns by 40 lines. for other resolutions and font sizes you will need to calculate the number of columns and rows yourself.
regarding pasting text to a pico, as Jim points out the selected baud rate does NOT affect transfer speed, and slowing down the transfer to allow the pico to keep up requires reading back the echoed data and inserting waits as necessary at the terminal emulator end. GFXterm also detects escape sequences in the echoed data and adjust accordingly to accommodate pasting directly into the editor. if using TeraTerm, using XModem is likely to be the simplest alternative.
as a side note: the pico versions of MMbasic seem to try and set the screen width ONE column wider than needed. i have absolutely no idea why this is done. GFXterm ignores all remote escape sequence requests to change the terminal width/height anyway, due to (amongst other things) limitations imposed by various O/S on how large a window can grow.
cheers,
rob :-)