James, Vertigo, John, _33 and Slotman - cheers for that lot... thanks for all the advice guys, very useful some of that thanks!
Yes James great idea with explorer, we tried this but I think it failed due to an error on my part, I may try this again a little later, as it removes explore bar and all doesn't it?!!! That would make my clients happier too.
Funnily the second PC seems to work okay!! Which stumped me a little, but the chap I was working with wrote a little registry entry and a cmd file to launch the app., but it kept saying "unable to set graphics mode"... which was strange as the monitor, desktop and app are all set to the same resolution, the monitor's naitive res, 1680 x 1050 at 32 bit.
As I say the second PC worked okay today, so I shall be keeping an eye on the first PC as soon as I get to it on Thursday - I have made a small ammend to the start of the programme, and I may try that 30 second delay before the graphics command. That was somehting I toyed with in my head, but not actually tried. I would have to have two apps though, one to begin and one to continue after the first game...or else there would be a 30 second pause before the menu comes on again! Doh!
I will keep you all posted this weekend with the results as the Kiosk is having its first outing this Friday! Gulp! Lol.
IPete2.
Yes James great idea with explorer, we tried this but I think it failed due to an error on my part, I may try this again a little later, as it removes explore bar and all doesn't it?!!! That would make my clients happier too.
Funnily the second PC seems to work okay!! Which stumped me a little, but the chap I was working with wrote a little registry entry and a cmd file to launch the app., but it kept saying "unable to set graphics mode"... which was strange as the monitor, desktop and app are all set to the same resolution, the monitor's naitive res, 1680 x 1050 at 32 bit.
As I say the second PC worked okay today, so I shall be keeping an eye on the first PC as soon as I get to it on Thursday - I have made a small ammend to the start of the programme, and I may try that 30 second delay before the graphics command. That was somehting I toyed with in my head, but not actually tried. I would have to have two apps though, one to begin and one to continue after the first game...or else there would be a 30 second pause before the menu comes on again! Doh!
I will keep you all posted this weekend with the results as the Kiosk is having its first outing this Friday! Gulp! Lol.
IPete2.