[AccessD] Screen Resolution

[Ryan W]

Well that's kind of my point, I don't see how a textbox that's 1920-ish
pixels wide (assuming it starts on the leftmost side and is unencumbered by
another control) makes sense.. I guess I'd have to see it in action.



On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 10:30 AM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The code expands the form to fill the display. Recently the guy who
> acquired my manufacturing product a few years ago ran into some ultra-high
> res monitors as a site where the screen resizing failed. I know the ADH
> resizer works well up to 1920 x 1080. Above that I haven't tested myself.
>
> Fortunately I don't have to support the software anymore - just collect the
> royalties. :o)
>
> I told him I would do it - however he had to ship me one of those monitors
> to play with while I fixed the resizing code. But those monitors are large,
> heavy, expensive, and shipping would be spendy. He has an in-house software
> guy who is pretty busy but that's who should really do it.
>
> r
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:19 AM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd be interested to see this in action. I cannot imagine wanting to
> > stretch text/combo boxes out so much to fill a screen that they span a
> > giant portion of it?
> >
> > My app was originally written in the 90s so most of my screens are still
> > stuffed up in the upper left corner of the access forms, because I
> haven't
> > seen a way to scale them up that makes sense... plus we still have a few
> > workstations with screens around 1440x900.. so I usually make the forms
> > work for the smallest size and then use the anchoring of certain controls
> > stretch right and down, and so forth.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 10:10 AM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Arthur:
> > >
> > > Many years ago when displays were from 800x600 and up. I used the
> screen
> > > resizing routine in the ADH to solve this problem. I still use it -
> > > although I have made some slight modifications over the years. I have a
> > way
> > > as well of handling sub-forms.  I can send you what I've got and you
> can
> > > test it out with a small database. Let me know.
> > >
> > > r
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 12:49 AM Arthur Fuller <
> fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is it possible to change the screen resolution upon entry to an
> Access
> > > app,
> > > > and then restore the original resolution on exit? The laptop I'm
> > working
> > > on
> > > > just doesn't have enough real estate to show the whole thing without
> > > > scrollbars. On the client's machine there is no problem. But here at
> > home
> > > > on my laptop it's a PITA.
> > > >
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