Re: Scalable screen in Forms 4.5

In article <129731530wnr_at_arete.demon.co.uk>,   tb_at_arete.demon.co.uk wrote:
>We are converting a number of Form 3 forms to 4.5 and they are going OK
>but the screen size seems to be fixed. Is there any way to support
>scalable fonts so that the screen size fills the window instead of just
>being a fixed size when we select a full screen window.
>
>I've tried looking in the help but without success. If there are some
>details somewhere please point me in the roght direction.

You can't scale the screens without going to extreme measures. I haven't heard of anyone trying to do this, but I guess you could change the font and size of each display item. But boilerplate is fixed, so you would need to set headings in items in a control block. You can also change the size of a form's window. But you don't really want to do this.

Also, you need to make sure you develop your screens so the user's with the smallest screens (usually 14" using 640x480 display settings) can see the entire screen. Users with larger screens or different display settings will have smaller than full-screen windows.

HTH,
Steve Cosner

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