Adjusting forms / controls for different screen resolutions.
Quote:
>I am trying to adjust the controls on a form so that if users are running under
>a different screen resolution than I am, the text boxes, labels, etc don't
>appear too big or small. I have tried adjusting the top, left, height, width,
>fonttype of each control on a form load. There must be a better way???
>Please help.
Mike:
What I do is make sure an app looks good at 640x480 and that it fits on the screen at that resolution. Once it does, I consider all the control 'adjusted'.
At this resolution most controls/text/etc. looks big and it should, especially if a large monitor (17+") is being used. When an app is used at a higher resolution, the controls/text/etc. should look smaller, even on a large monitor. There's nothing that can be done about someone trying to run at 1024x768 on a 14" monitor -- things are just going to look small.
Few of my apps do drawing. A control that supports drawing (especially as input) may have to be tweaked at run-time to look 'right', but these are the exception, not the rule.
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