form resizing / screen resolution

[formerTexan]

Hi,

I am interested to hear what experience folks have had in implementing the Form Resizing class from A2000 Developers Handbook. For anyone not familiar, this class resizes forms, controls and fonts on the fly for varying screen resolutions.

My initial experience has been rather less than satidfactory and I have run into the following problems.

1. Resizing seems unstable as forms will change sizing during the course of the same session;

2. The intial screen to be resized always has to be manually refreshed to get to where it needs to be.

3. The design parameter inputs have to be individually tweaked for each form (yikes, there are 40 of them) to approach

4. I don't have a monitor available with native 800 x 600 resolution for testing. So took a 1024 x 768 monitor and changed the resolution to 800 x 600. Alas, none of the forms sized down to the lower resolution, although if I again tweaked the design parameter input values, I could get fairly close. Perhaps this is something I will have to allow the user to do on the fly.

This brings to mind the caveats about developing to the lower resolution and sizing upwards. But I never expected to find so many 800 x 600 monitors still being used.

So has anyone run into similiar difficulties and had any success in a fix?

THanks,
Bill

 

[dhookom]

My experience and advice is to design for the lower resolution and allow users to use the remainder of their screen for other things.

I will quite often add some code (only takes one line) that resizes a continuous subform to take advantage of more screen space. The fonts and controls (other than the subform) stay the same size. There is a sample at

http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/OtherLibraries.asp#Hookom,Duane.

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[ZmrAbdulla]

Here is another solution

http://www.jamiessoftware.tk/resizeform/rf_download.html

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[formerTexan]

Thanks Duane and Zameer,

Ouch! Designing to the lower resolution hurts. I think someone said "don;t leave money on the table and don;t leave space on the screen". But I must do something for a fix, so I appreciate your feedback. There were also some other 3rd party solutions that turned up in a search of the archives. And I haven't given up on tinkering with the A2K Deveopers Handbook class.

Cheers,
Bill

 

[ZmrAbdulla]

Any way, I have seen a drawback on these free codes that don't resize activex controls on the form.

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[formerTexan]

Hi,

In followup to Zameer's suggestion:

http://www.jamiessoftware.tk/resizeform/rf_download.html

It worked well downsizing to a lower resolution, although I did have to change font sizes from 8 to 9 to maintain legibility. While thio code is perhaps more rudimentary than some alternatives, it also carries noticeably less overhead.

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Cheers,
Bill