Designing for a specific minimum resolution

[Chris Nielsen]

I've tried to find this before and couldn't. When you're designing an
application to fit nicely in the space provided by a screen resolution of
800x600 what should you set the actual dimensions of your form to?

What is the accepted height of the typical Windows Taskbar across the bottom
of the screen?

TIA.

-Chris

 

[Marc Bernard]

I've tried to find this before and couldn't. When you're designing an
application to fit nicely in the space provided by a screen resolution of
800x600 what should you set the actual dimensions of your form to?

What is the accepted height of the typical Windows Taskbar across the bottom
of the screen?

Take a look at the Screen.WorkingArea property.

Marc

 

[Chris Nielsen]

My question has more to do with what is accepted convention. In lieu of
writing a test app that displays a message box showing its resolution when
maximized and running that app on different versions of Windows I thought
I'd just see if anyone knew these numbers or if someone had written a short
writeup anywhere on the web.

 

[Ron Fluegge]

For better or worse, I use 90% of 800x600 for my form sizes. This gives me
sufficient space so that the taskbar, etc are ok.

Therefore, my "default" size is 720x540 ... I know that it's not a lot of
real estate but XP supports a "minimum" resolution of 800x600 so I figure
I'm going to have some clients running that resolution.

I looked everywhere before settling on that size and could find no
recommendations.

I think that is more to what you were looking for ... no?

Ron

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