DarkDraw

      DarkDraw v1.00 - Update 08.2026

DarkDraw uses its own custom keyboard driver, which takes over the BIOS interrupt entirely. If you are using DarkDraw under Desqview, you should set the Keyboard Conflict to the highest rating (F). Side effects of this include the disappearance of several normal keyboard functions, including CapsLock, NumLock, Pause, PrintScreen, and Alt-Keypad.


Because of DarkDraw's custom keyboard driver, several people have complained about not being able to use the extended arrows correctly. Keyboards that are not IBM compatible may not send the correct press/release sequence, and so DarkDraw cannot interpret it properly.

Registered users with this problem have received custom-made copies of DarkDraw for their systems, but a universal solution is being sought.


First, a description of the layout of the screen. Many people have suggested that the status line be unobtrusive and as small as possible, so it occupies only 1 line of the screen. The upper 24 lines are a
window to your picture, and the bottom line is the status and message line.

• An example status line is shown below:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                                                                                                       │
│ ( 1, 45) │ 243/3808 lines │ B[#]F │ │ ─ ┌ ┬ ┐ ├ ┼ ┤ └ ┴ ┘                 │
│                                                                                                                       │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘

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