Re: Anyone have any ideas on dealing with client screen resolution differences?

In article <37957b34.31004226_at_news.ikea.com>, Scott G. <me_at_me.com> wrote:
>What I want is info on dealing with users who differ in their screen
>resolutions. Some people like 640/480. Others prefer 800/600.
>Etc.
>
>Has anyone dealt with this issue? What ideas do you have?
>I don't think there is anyway to code for it, but maybe you do.
>
>We are migrating our Forms 3 code to 4.5. Then we will move
>to either 5 or 6. So GUI development is new to us.
>
>We thought about using policy editor on logon for the users
>and setting their resolution to 800/600.

We write ALL of our forms to fit within the 640/480 window. We use character as the coordinate properties. (But this is somewhat limiting -- you can't position lines farther apart if you have room. It's either single-spaced or double-spaced.) We use MS Sans Serif 8 as the default character set.

Watch out for users who set their screens to a higher-number resolution, but then select Large Fonts. It screws up the length of boilerplate on Forms screens. Tell them to only use small fonts, and use lower resolution if they can't read the text. (Or do like I do... use high resolution, but get reading glasses :-)

Steve Cosner Received on Tue Jul 20 1999 - 18:45:37 CEST