Forms on Hi-Lo Resolution Screen Displays

[Andy]

Hi;

This is a question about opening forms on different computers. Some
w/screen resolutions of 800x600, (Lo), some w/1024x768, (Hi).

For the Hi resolution screens I used a 12 point size font.

The "Main" form contains several sub-forms and a dozen or so "Pop-Up" modal
forms.

Thought about creating a second "Main" form w/a smaller point size for the
"Lo" resolution screens; than realized that all of the sub-forms would also
needed to be duplicated with the smaller point size and all of the
"Pop-Ups", creating a cumbersome database.

There must be someone that has encountered this before me.

Is there a shorter and smarter solution?

Andy

 

[Arvin Meyer]

There's a ready made solution called Shrinker-Stretcher:

http://www.peterssoftware.com/index.htm

The Access Developer's Handbook by Ken Getz, et. al. has some code to do
this also.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[Rick Brandt]

Hi;

This is a question about opening forms on different computers. Some
w/screen resolutions of 800x600, (Lo), some w/1024x768, (Hi).

For the Hi resolution screens I used a 12 point size font.

The "Main" form contains several sub-forms and a dozen or so "Pop-Up" modal
forms.

Thought about creating a second "Main" form w/a smaller point size for the
"Lo" resolution screens; than realized that all of the sub-forms would also
needed to be duplicated with the smaller point size and all of the
"Pop-Ups", creating a cumbersome database.

There must be someone that has encountered this before me.

Is there a shorter and smarter solution?

There are solutions that will dynamically resize your forms, but I feel
these are seldom necessary. People running higher resolutions generally
are doing so on larger displays which compensate. You can't just switch
between resolution settings on a single monitor and then conclude that the
fonts are too small at the higher resolution.

Nearly every program run at a higher resolution will have smaller fonts
than the same program run at a lower resolutions. The people choosing the
higher settings understand this and have chosen a resolution and system
font-size setting that they feel comfortable with. As long as your app is
using standard font sizes I wouldn't worry about it because it will likely
appear with the same font sizes that the user is seeing in all of his other
applications.

Except for the visually impaired, people buy larger monitors and run higher
resolutions so they can see *more* on screen, not so they can see the same
amount of stuff, only bigger.

 

[Andy]

Thank You all.

Andy

There are solutions that will dynamically resize your forms, but I feel
these are seldom necessary. People running higher resolutions generally
are doing so on larger displays which compensate. You can't just switch
between resolution settings on a single monitor and then conclude that the
fonts are too small at the higher resolution.

Nearly every program run at a higher resolution will have smaller fonts
than the same program run at a lower resolutions. The people choosing the
higher settings understand this and have chosen a resolution and system
font-size setting that they feel comfortable with. As long as your app is
using standard font sizes I wouldn't worry about it because it will likely
appear with the same font sizes that the user is seeing in all of his other
applications.

Except for the visually impaired, people buy larger monitors and run higher
resolutions so they can see *more* on screen, not so they can see the same
amount of stuff, only bigger.