1.  Set your form for 800x600 and do not allow resizing of the form.  While
drastic, it is also the simplest.  However, this solution is not without
fault, either.  If the user has a different system font, for instance, your
labels, captions, etc. may be off a bit.

2.  Write code to resize your controls when the form is resized.  While
tedious, this option provides the most flexibility.

3.  Look for "elastic" controls that will automatically resize children
controls.  The issue you have discovered is certainly not new and is one
that every multimedia developer has to contend with.  VideoSoft makes a
reasonably priced package called VsOCX which contains an elastic control.
Again, this control is a container object similar to a picture box on which
you place all your GUI controls.  Whenever the form is resized, all the
controls in the elastic control are resized, too.

--
John Tabor

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~jftabor

    There are a number of controls that can do what you want. The best one I
have found is called FastForm, which is available from
http://www.bigfoot.com/~ctsoftware. Other controls work in various ways, but
this one just drops on the Form you want to control and can be used without
any programming at all. It also supports things like scaling of all your
controls graphics, fonts, borders - Form Zorder, save window, MDI Form size
etc.. which no other control does to my knowledge.

Using a control like this would suit you better that one that acts as a
container for controls because you have already developed your forms. If you
used a container type, you would have to modify all your forms to cut and
paste the controls into the container. With this one you just need to drop a
control onto each form that you want to scale.

Regards
        Molly.

But in special situations, it's not appropriate to simply scale all controls,
according to the actual font settings. A general problem arises from pictures,
consisting of a fixed number of pixels, and text, that has different size and
height in pixels, depending on the screen resolution and setting of the font
size.

Bitmaps should never be zoomed or shrinked, so these have a different size in
every graphics resolution. The only possible cure are multiple versions of
every picture, with a different size in pixels.

The size of fonts should never be changed, since it's the very personal
adjustment of the user, how big a font of e.g. 10 points will be on his screen.

Unfortunately Windows doesn't handle font sizes correctly with different
graphics resolutions, so you must check and adjust any labels and other
controls, that contain text, to make these never cut the contained text.
Finally the forms must be adjusted to these settings. Most setup programs - to
mention MS in the first place - either show truncated text on my system, or
even worse, have buttons outside windows with fixed borders :-(

Therefore I never use graphics in my forms, unless in toolbars, that
automatically adjust themselves. All text areas are big enough, to hold the
full text in (hopefully ;-) all resolutions. And I never use AutoSize, since
this will guarantee truncated labels on any other system.

DoDi

WidthFactor=( (Screen.Width /15 ) / 800)
HeightFactor=( (Screen.Height /15 ) / 600)

New_X = Old_X  * WidthFactor
New_Y = Old_Y  * HeightFactor

DoDi