Re: Large vs Small Fonts on Win95 with 16-bit Oracle Forms

First of all, do NOT crosspost to all four oracle newsgroups--your question has nothing to do with the server or marketplace newsgroups. And furthermore, don't post anything to the old comp.databases.oracle newsgroup. (I have trimmed the newsgroups list down to two for this reply.)

And now to answer your question. Using small fonts vs large fonts is the same problem as developing a form for different monitor resolutions. You have to develop the form for your users' monitors. And if you have users who use different monitor resolutions (or font settings), you have a big problem--somebody isn't going to be happy. Either you are going to have to redesign your layouts, or your users are going to need to switch monitor settings.

Unfortunately, you have probably the worst case: developing with small fonts and then trying to switch to large fonts. Had you gone the other way, at least no text would get cut off.

You can get left-hand or right-hand alignment to remain true across both settings if you create your boilerplate text and assign the proper alignment to it: In the canvas Layout Editor, select a boilerplate text item. Then click Format, Drawing Options, Text; then select the desired Horizontal Origin for the item. This controls which "corner" of the text item gets "pinned" on the canvas when changing fonts or monitor resolution.

(And changing to 32-bit forms won't help this situation.)

Hope this helps,
Steve Cosner

In article <3312EF16.703B_at_pweh.com>, Chris Wyse <wysecj_at_pweh.com> wrote:
>I am running Windows 95 and using the 16-bit version of Developer
>2000. I do not have the option of upgrading to the 32-bit version of
>Dev2000. I have a Forms application that works fine as long as the
>"Small Font" option of the "Display Properties", "Settings" tab is
>used. When I switch to "Large Fonts", my forms don't look nice any
>more since some of the text gets clipped and things don't align
>properly. My users want to use "Large Fonts" - how can I accomodate
>them with out redoing all my forms? Is there an option in the
>oracle.ini file to deal with this? I want my forms to always appear
>as they do when "Small Fonts" is specified. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>--
>
>Chris Wyse
>
>McCarty Associates, Inc.
>
>Email: wysecj_at_pweh.com
Received on Wed Feb 26 1997 - 00:00:00 CET