Develooping for Windows XP and Me

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Harry J. Smith

When I develop forms on my Windows XP system they look fine when the .exe
file is run on the same system, but when I run them on other Windows systems
like Windows Me, the forms look all wrong.

How can I develop forms that run and look good on both the XP and Me
operating systems.

-Harry
 
Applications I developed using XP, run perfectly well on W98 SE, so I would
expect them to work on W2000 as well.
 
If by all wrong you mean, only showing part of the screen, you have to
change the number of pixels the screen is set to.
 
When I develop forms on my Windows XP system they look fine when the .exe
file is run on the same system, but when I run them on other Windows systems
like Windows Me, the forms look all wrong.
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Can you explain a bit more about how they "look all wrong"?
How can I develop forms that run and look good on both the XP and Me
operating systems.
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I use VS.NET2k3 on WinXPPro at work and Win2k at home and my apps look
pretty much identical across the various incarnations of Windows...
 
How do you do that (change the number of pixels the screen is set to)?

And the background color changed from light blue to green.

My forms do not look good on Windows 98 SE or Windows M. E.

-Harry
 
Harry J. Smith said:
How do you do that (change the number of pixels the screen is set to)?
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I Only know how this could be done on W98 and WXP
this is how it would be done on a W98 machine.

Right click on the Desktop | Properties | Settings Tab
And the background color changed from light blue to green.
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Control Panel|Screen Properties|Color Tab

Or maybe the the display has an Options Menu where you
can change the display_ color_ balance.
My forms do not look good on Windows 98 SE or Windows M. E.
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I have had to make changes to PCs and displays as well to
get identical appearances of my applications. If you use colors
in your applications, you risk them looking horrible on the
client's computer.
 
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