Increase window size for higher resolution monitors

[BongoB1]

I support a number of FPW 2.6 programs which were designed when monitors were all at 800 X 600. Now, my clients are getting higher resolution monitors which make my application’s screens look smaller and smaller. I’ve been asked about making them bigger, but the time involved in manually increasing the size of each and repositioning each label, control, etc. across a larger window has always seemed to be too time consuming.

Recently I’ve testing increasing the font size in a screen by opening it (the .SCX file) as a table, running the command, “REPLACE fontsize WITH fontsize+4 FOR NOT EMPTY(fontsize)”, then reopening the screen with the MODIFY SCREEN command. Everything has been increased in size and is located approximately where is should be on the screen. I have to do some minor clean up with position, etc., but the screen is basically ready to go in a matter of minutes.

Has anyone had any experience with increasing the window sizes of FPW 2.6 systems for higher resolution monitors without a complete rewrite to VFP?

Thanks for your advice in advance.

 

[Dan Freeman]

One of the downfalls of FPW's screen generator is that it hard-codes window coordinates. If what you've got is working for you, stick with it.

There was much written over the years on this topic. I think Jim Booth's FoxTalk article ran with a subtitle "You may regret trying it".