Auto Form Resizing on various screen resolutions??

[dennisell]

Is it possible for access to scale down or up the forms like it does with reports?

 

[ssecca]

Yes

 

[dennisell]

Could you steer me in the right direction as to make this happen. I have users that all run different resolutions on their screens and I have several forms that are on the large size with a lot on info on them. It would be great if the form could automatically resize itself to fit that users screen.

 

[ssecca]

I know I was a little vague the first time. In all honesty I found changing the forms to match the screen resolution difficult. Mostly because of having to move the controls to ft a smaller screen area. Unfortunately, this has led to my programming to the lowest resolution in the firm because then it fits everybody. Now having said this I have somewhere in my archives a sample that shows how to do it programmatically, I will locate and send it your way. So at this point not a lot of help yet, more just food for thought.

 

[FireViking]

Hi,

I have tried and found this exercise very difficult myself.
You are better off creating the form to fit 800*600. There are not to many users using 600*400 anymore. The screen still looks ok at 1024*700.

 

[CJSSC]

send me an e-mail to: coldham@sscinc.org and I'll give you a freeware Access module that does form resizing automatically. I use it in all of my forms now.

CJ