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Yatin

Hi,

I was hoping that someone had a solution for a resolution
issue that i'm facing. I have developed a piece of
software on my 14" screen with 800x600 resolution. It is
obvious that when run on a PC with a different resolution,
everything is messed up.

Is there a way to get around this?
Thanks in advance
 
Yatin said:
Hi,

I was hoping that someone had a solution for a resolution
issue that i'm facing. I have developed a piece of
software on my 14" screen with 800x600 resolution. It is
obvious that when run on a PC with a different resolution,
everything is messed up.
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Define "Messed Up". Other than your form taking up less of the screen or more of the
screen there should be no problem with different resolution settings. When the user
has a lower setting than the form was designed on the form might not fit on the
screen forcing the user to scroll around, but I would think that to not be an issue
for you as very few people are running less than 800 by 600 these days.

There are screen resizing utilities that you can add, but they can be a bit of work
to implement and they don't work perfectly for all types of form objects. My
experience was that they worked fairly well for making forms larger on high
resolution screens, but not so good on making them smaller for lower resolution
settings.

Many programs (and web sites) develop for a minimum standard of 800 by 600 and leave
it at that. People running lower settings than that are likely having difficulty
with a lot of the programs they use (not just yours), and people running higher
settings are accustomed to objects being smaller because that is what happens in
virtually every program they run. Keep in mind that higher resolution settings
normally coincide with larger displays. People with this hardware want your app to
take up less screen space (as a percentage of the total). If they just wanted
monstrous forms with fonts an inch high they wouldn't be using the higher resolution
setting.
 
Hi Yatin,
One of the tools Ricks was talking about can be found at:
http://www.developershandbook.com/downloads.htm and look for the "form
scaling/resizing tool".
It works perfectly for me. You can specify what resolution you design your
application for and it
will resize any other screens to keep the same dimensions and has lots of
other good stuff.
I have tested a fair few of them out there and although they are all good I
find this one suits my purposes
better.

But you really should read the document that comes with it regarding screen
resolution
considerations and keep in mind Ricks comments.

HTH
 
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

For more informmation, there are some great articles about form scaling in
the December 2000, and May 2001 SmartAccess newsletter. Check it out here:
http://www.smartaccessnewsletter.com

Hope this helps,

Peter De Baets
Peter's Software - MS Access Tools for Developers
http://www.peterssoftware.com
 
Hi, i tried your solution, but i'm having problems. I
referenced your program, but it still gives me an error
with reading it. I think it's because your language is set
at "english/united states". the rest of mine
are "standard" Is there any way of getting around this

Thanks
 
What is the error? If it is a compile error, what line of code is
highlighted when you get the error?
 
no, no, your program works fine. its only when i try to
reference it. It doesnt read it. I believe its the
language diferences. yours being English/United States,
and mine Standard.
Can you help?
 
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