Re: Re: MS Teams strangeness

Neil and the list

I solved my strangeness with SciTE showing as a blank window over MS Teams.

This was found when I was working with a couple of the guys from DevOps 
at work, because the windows of VMs were also appearing as blank white 
when viewed as a shared desktop over MS Teams.

This turned out to be because I had my laptop lid closed and no external 
monitor connected.

In this state Windows does not attempt to either render the DirectX 
portions of the desktop, or perhaps not to forward it over RDP. One of 
the DevOps guys helping me with this spotted the start button and the 
task bar were not rendering quite right.

The laptop lid was closed with no monitor connected because as a blind 
software engineer, I use a screen reader and don't need a monitor except 
when interacting with photon-dependent team members.

Posting this just to give you a heads up if you encounter anything 
similar over Teams at any time.

Mike


On 12/07/2023 07:20, Neil Hodgson wrote:
> Mike Ray:
>   
> 
> ... when sharing my
> screen via Microsoft Teams, any SciTE window shows no text at the remote
> end. To viewers, the window is quite blank.
> 
> 
>     SciTE defaults to using Direct2D and DirectWrite for drawing which may
> be incompatible with some other software. You can switch to the older and
> less capable GDI API by setting the 'technology' property to '0'.
> technology=0
>     Return to Direct2D with technology=1. There are also values 2 (
> DIRECTWRITERETAIN) and 3 (DIRECTWRITEDC) which are Direct2D modes that may
> work in some circumstances.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct2D
> 
>     Neil
> 

-- 
Michael A. Ray
Software engineer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK

He/him/cis

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when 
there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery



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