Is it possible?

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Sherri Boers

I am wondering if there is a way to resize the overall
form size based upon a the end user's resolution. Lower
resolution everything would come in at smaller to fix
within the window.

Thank in advance

Sherri
 
There is a few utilities out there that will help. However, the best
solution is to write your application to a particular resolution (you did do
that..right?).

I usually design to a 800 x 600 res. Then, on a higher res screens, the user
gets more room for other applications.

However, even when designed to 800 x 600, you must leave a good bit extra
room, since things like title bars, and fonts can (and will) be slightly
different from pc to pc. So, just like when you design reports, you always
leave a good inch boarder, and that way, you will find your reports work on
just about every printer on the planet.
 
There are third-party form scaling solutions available that might help:

A shareware version of a form rescaling module I wrote called
ShrinkerStretcher is available at this web site:
http://www.peterssoftware.com/ss2.htm

FMS has a sizer module at www.fmsinc.com.

The Access Developer's Handbook has form resizing code included:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0782119417/107-8064361-7403703

Hope this helps,

Peter De Baets
Peter's Software - MS Access Tools for Developers
http://www.peterssoftware.com
 
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