[AccessD] Screen Resolution

[Rocky Smolin]

It depends on the resolution of the display you're using when you design
the form. But in general, look at your unresized form occupying the top
left hand corner and imagine it being stretched horizontally and vertically
to fill the screen. I think the resizing code could be easily modified to
make the form occupy 1/2 the width and height by adjusting the X and Y
resizing  factors by half.  Haven't tried that but it should work.

If you've got a copy of the old ADH you can check out the code yourself.

r

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:36 AM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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