Re: Changing form sizes
Date: 1997/10/07
Message-ID: <876237347.31374_at_dejanews.com>#1/1
You really need to develop for the lowest common denominator. Although our developers all have 17 inch monitors most running at 800x600, we know that many users use 14-inch at 640x480, so we keep all forms to a size that will fit within that dimension. In addition, we have to increase the field widths in some cases since the forms will also run on Macintosh, and the font requires a little more space.
I have looked into the possibility of changing the screen layout dynamically depending on the monitor used, but gave it up. It would be far too complex to try to move headings around, and also, you can't change the number of records displayed in a multi-record block at run time.
The only thing I have implemented is detecting whether to maximize the screen or not when a form runs. (That was on the QA form.)
Regards,
Steve Cosner
http://members.aol.com/stevec5088 Download QA, a dynamic data utility form-- Quick display and update access to any table.
In article <01bcd1ea$74ca51e0$ad0b6d93_at_l8ip173.delm.tas.gov.au>,
"Mark Parssey" <markpa_at_delm.tas.gov.au> wrote:
>
> (subtitled Do I really need to worry about the users?)
>
> What approach do you believe is appropriate for dealing with the vagaries
> of individual use of an app. in a Windows environment.
>
> That is how do we go about designing canvases/windows that will cope with
> users having different screen settings, anything from 640x480 to 1024x768,
> or with them changing the size of the MDI window.
>
> For example, I've a form which displays beautifully on my 1024x screen, bit
> if I go to a lower res. I only see a part of it. I don't know what the
> various users will be using but it's bound to be a variety. Would you
> design for the lowest common denominator?
>
> I'm especially interested if anybody has bothered to do dynamic changes to
> table style canvases. ie changing the no. of displays for a record &
> changing the canvas.
>
> Does anyone have some good references for GUI design, especially in this
> area?
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