ACCPAC Plus in full screen mode

Published April 23, 2012 | By Accpac Guy

Yup, this is for all of you still relying on good old faithul ACCPAC Plus for DOS. You might have noticed that when your hardware or OS was upgraded, and you reinstalled ACCPAC Plus, that suddenly it was running in a window and if you pressed alt-enter to make it full screen, it was all funky colours and only filled half the now full screen DOS box. Well, never fear. Although you seriously need to consider upgrading to Sage ERP Accpac, some of you have some quite sound reasons as to why you cannot or will not upgrade. This then, is for you:

1. Run ACCPAC Plus

Double-click the shortcut to start ACCPAC Plus.

2. Select the window’s colour properties page

Right-click on the window title bar to get the pop-up menu. Choose the Properties entry and then the Colors tab. Note the line of 16 colours in the middle of the dialog box. You are going to change these.

3. Edit the colours

Edit the rest of the colours so that they agree with the following table.

Number	Color	Red	Green	Blue
1	Black	0	0	0
2	Gray	128	128	128
3	Blue	0	0	128
4	White	255	255	255
5	Red	128	0	0
6	Green	0	128	0
7	Black	0	0	0
8	Blue	0	0	128
9	Gray	128	128	128
10	White	192	192	192
11	Blue	0	0	255
12	Black	0	0	0
13	Gray	128	128	128
14	Black	0	0	0
15	Black	0	0	0
16	White	255	255	255

4. Save the colours

Press the OK button. Choose the option to “Save properties for future windows with the same title”

5. Turn off the flashing error messages

In ACCPAC Plus Windowing System Manager press F3 to pop up the System Menu. Select Options and then set Flash error messages to No.