Screen Resolution

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About 5-6 weeks ago I posted a screen resolution (SR) issue I was having.

I created an app in C# which worked fine on my PC. However, upon installing
it on 2 other PCs the only way they could see the whole screen was to change
their (SR). The replies I got were that except for Gaming apps a typical
office application should not need any change in SR for it to function
properly.

My question today is: Is it possible that since I develpoed it on a PC with
the SR set to 1280 X 1224 and the other PC is more like 1024 X 768, in other
words to ends of the spectrum this would cause the discrency?
 
Do you know exactly what they see ?

Is this a resizable window ? Have you tried to resize the window on your own
PC to see where you can go and still have a usable app ? Hopefully they are
not using 800x600 or worse...

As a side note, it seems the goal is to always use the best resolution for
the monitor you are using. If you want bigger fonts you can always change
the DPI but keep using the full monitor resolution...

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Ed Hochberg said:
About 5-6 weeks ago I posted a screen resolution (SR) issue I was having.

I created an app in C# which worked fine on my PC. However, upon
installing
it on 2 other PCs the only way they could see the whole screen was to
change
their (SR). The replies I got were that except for Gaming apps a typical
office application should not need any change in SR for it to function
properly.
Click to expand...

Usually the in-house windows developer designs his screen so they fit the
lowest common denominator of his expected audience.
So if you have a huge screen on your development machine then your screens
may well look pretty small on that.

The alternative is to write code that resizes screens and controls to cope
with different resolutions.
This is often necessary for packages where the software house can't tell
what the minimum resolution is likely to be.
 
Ed Hochberg said:
About 5-6 weeks ago I posted a screen resolution (SR) issue I was having.

I created an app in C# which worked fine on my PC. However, upon installing
it on 2 other PCs the only way they could see the whole screen was to change
their (SR). The replies I got were that except for Gaming apps a typical
office application should not need any change in SR for it to function
properly.

My question today is: Is it possible that since I develpoed it on a PC with
the SR set to 1280 X 1224 and the other PC is more like 1024 X 768, in other
words to ends of the spectrum this would cause the discrency?
Click to expand...


Your screen resolution isn't so much the issue. The main problem is your
main form must be set to some large size, larger than 1024x768. Does your
main form really need to be that big?

If the main form needs to be that big, then you just need to require that
screen resolution to run. As I recall the previous discussion, you should
not change the resolution for the user. You could on startup test the
resolution and inform the user the screen required is size X by Y pixels, and
guide them to change the resolution.

Mike
 
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