Re: [Dev-C++] Blank screen when starting Dev-C++?

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Do you somewhere in your path have any other tools with the same name as a
Dev-C++ tool, i.e. is there a possibility that Dev-C++ might activate a
(possibly old) console application instead of the intended
Dev-C++-supplied tool of same name?

/Per W

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Matthew Link wrote:

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>   Sent: Monday 06 February 2006 03:51 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Blank screen when starting Dev-C++?
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>   Do u have a videocard by ATi?  I read somewhere that dev-C+ was having problems with them.
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>   Maybe consider a driver update.. other than that i dunno.
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>   I''ve tried to use dev-C++, I've read most of the related msgs on the forums and everywhere else, but still can't get it to compile project files, so last night i gave up and found 2 other IDE's.
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>   if ur still having problems then try out:
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> This is the best possibility I have heard so far.  How can I tell if I have an ATI card without opening up my case?
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> I have tried everything--uninstalling and reinstalling everything Dev-C++, manually deleting everything Dev-C++, using registry-cleaning utilities to remove everything Dev-C++, and the problem persists.  This problem did NOT exist when I was still using Dev-C++ 5 on a Windows 98 machine, but it does it on this one, upon which I use Windows XP.
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> It is not a serious problem, but it cannot be right and should be fixable.  It is also probably hard on my monitor (no other programs I have do this).
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> Here is the problem:  When I run Dev-C++ 5, the screen goes blank momentarily (in the same manner as I were changing screen modes from the "Display Properties/Settings" menu) but then returns as if nothing happened.  The same screen-blanking problem also happens when selecting the "Compiler Options" item from the "Tools" menu from the Dev-C++ application itself.  I have not seen any other examples of this happening, using either Dev-C++ 5 or any other applications (including Dev-C++ 4).  I would not like to go back to a previous version of the program just to avoid a problem that should not exist.  I would like to fix the problem at hand instead.
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> Does the development staff at Bloodshed have access to this list?  Are they members?  I think this should be reported as a "bug" but I have had no replies yet.  What possibilities may be causing this?  I will discuss them and what I have done to address them.
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