Allen
Further information has now come to light in respect of the truncation of navigation bars which throws doubt on the previous suggestion that failure to download the latest Office updates to the affected computers might be responsible
To recap, and expand, somewhat, the situation is as follows:
When displayed on the original development computer, running Access 2002 under Windows 2000, and now on an XP Home computer, running Access 2003 (it makes no difference), the navigation bars, associated with all the numerous forms, display correctly. However, on the first two remote target computers, running the .mdb files created on the development machines, a number of navigation bars are truncated. ‘Record…6…of 256’ becoming ‘Record…6…of 2’, or even ‘Record…6’, for example. In some cases even the rightmost navigation button, or buttons, are lost
The opportunity has recently arisen to run the database independently on a third, remotely located computer. This shows similar truncation problems
The difference between the target computers is that, whilst it is difficult to ascertain with certainty whether or not the original pair are fully updated, there is no doubt that the third has all the latest software updates installed, it being under the control of a much more experienced user. An interesting fact has, however, now emerged that may provide the key to this puzzle. All the computers suffering the truncation have 15†monitors. The development was carried out on a computer with a 17†monitor and has now shifted to a machine with an 18†screen
Experiments with the computers having 15†displays shows that the missing characters, and/or buttons, can be revealed by enlarging the affected forms, shifting their right hand margins to the right. This completely unbalances the form design, of course, but does allow the navigation bars to be viewed in full, leading to the seemingly absurd conclusion that, whilst the sizes of the labels and text boxes on the forms are automatically scaled to fit the size of the screen, as one would expect, that of the navigation bars remains absolute, the original design dimensions being retained from the 17†or 18†monitors and therefore being, in many cases, too large to fit the reduced field size available on the smaller screens
I find this difficult to accept. It is almost like maintaining that a 1024 x 768 image from an 18†monitor cannot be displayed in full on a 15†monitor because it will ‘fall off the edge’ of the smaller screen. (All the computers involved use 1024x768 resolution, incidentally.) Nevertheless, it is difficult to avoid this sort of explanation
Not only do navigation bars appear to fail to scale properly, however. It is also not apparent how they can be manually resized. In some cases, I would like to make them easier to see by using a larger font, for example, but cannot find a way of doing this or of resizing their display fields
Suggestions please
