[AccessD] Display on 21:9 screen

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 10:47:29 CDT 2015


An interesting examination of the relative value between dual monitors
and ultra wide screen.  The comments offer additional feelings from
early adopters.

GK

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:20 AM,  <RockySmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> I have a client who has changed from 16:9 displays to 21:9 displays -
> ultrawide.  In my product I use the venerable screen resizing module
> from the Access Developer's Handbook.  It has always worked well with
> some custom tweaks I have made over the years, and works well in 16:9.
> But it does not resize correctly in 21:9.
>
> The client can make the forms display correctly by setting the display
> back to 16:9 but is complaining that the inability makes his investment
> in ultra wides 'useless'.
>
> So maybe the technology has finally outstripped the ability of the
> Littwin, Getz, et al's  resizing code to keep up.
>
> I'm on the road and just got this report so I can't replicate the
> condition until I get back to the office.
>
> Bu in the meantime is there an alternative - preferably packaged in a
> module - that effectively replaces the ADH code?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
>
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