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Design Manager 6.0.1: Screen goes black during Translate. (DOSGRAB in Win95)


Record #2430

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  FPGA Core

Problem Title:
Design Manager 6.0.1: Screen goes black during Translate. (DOSGRAB in
Win95)



Problem Description:
Keywords: DOS, DOSGRAB, Black, Translate, XACT, Design Manager,
Win95

Urgency: Standard

General Description:
While performing Translate the screen suddenly turns black.
Once Translate is complete, the windows screen returns.
Everything completes normally, but once Flow Engin is started,
the screen turns black again.


Solution 1:

Cause:
This is related to DOSGRAB.  When ever a DOS based program is
launched by the Design Manager GUI the DOSGRAB program enters a
Full-screen DOS mode.

Solution:
1) Select dosgrab (make sure that you are selecting dosgrab.exe
and not the shortcut) with the right mouse button.  This will
cause a pop-up menu to appear.

2) Select "Properties" at the bottom of the pop-up menu.

3) In the dosgrab Properties dialog box, select the "Screen"
tab.

4) In the Usage section, select "Window" instead of
"Full-screen."



End of Record #2430