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I have submitted an enhancement request for you - BZ #10177.

Noted.

Alt-Up and Alt-Down also go to the extremes of the document in "standard" Amiga key shortcuts.

A back-slash is an escape character and is paired with the next character, whatever that is. In the example above, the first back-slash escapes the "n". The second escapes the ";" on the next line, which is not a known control character, so is ignored. The next character in the t...

Like other languages, the Italian catalogs contain, for each string: (1) The string name in English; (2) The Italian translation; (3) The original English text. (Every string in the file is structured this way) In this case: MSG_ABOUT_INSTALLER2 \nCopyright (C) 1990-2009\ \nHyperion Entertainment CV...

OK, found it. Yes, it has been fixed (there are semi-colons in front of the English lines).

The Italian language files were last updated and released to betatesters on 28-May-2016 (V53.3). Hopefully your problem was addressed in that release.

I don't speak Italian, so please explain the problem to me and I'll check the catalog for you.

...it does sound like a waste of precious memory... I agree, but at the time that the screen blanker code was written (~2010 ?), screens didn't occupy 84 MB very often. During my recent forays into video device drivers, I have learned that there is an API entry to "switch off" the video o...

ScreenBlankerEngine doesn't allocate any large amounts of RAM (only a few structures here and there). I suspect that your "50 MB" is associated with opening a new screen to show a blanker animation. I haven't checked the code to see if it does this before checking for an animation to displ...

Niels, there are "reserved" fields in the specification, where manufacturers can define their own private attributes. I suspect that is how a pivoted monitor communicates with its driver. Remember that a Windows driver is usually provided by the monitor manufacturer, so they can define the...