Form appears differently on a different machine

[Guest]

I developed a normal form as a base. On each of my forms I have a line drawn
accross that gives the apperance of separating the header and the detail.
The problem is I just switched to a different laptop and the line which
previously ran all the way accross my form no longer does. My new screen is
wider than the laptop that I orginally used when I originally built the
forms.

I have many forms and really don't want to bring up each form and reformat
them. I have other forms where I have a subform and now they that don't
extend to the right end of the form (similar to the line issue).

 

[Tony Toews]

I developed a normal form as a base. On each of my forms I have a line drawn
accross that gives the apperance of separating the header and the detail.
The problem is I just switched to a different laptop and the line which
previously ran all the way accross my form no longer does. My new screen is
wider than the laptop that I orginally used when I originally built the
forms.

I have many forms and really don't want to bring up each form and reformat
them. I have other forms where I have a subform and now they that don't
extend to the right end of the form (similar to the line issue).

You could, with a lot of work and VBA code, resize the width of the
lines and subforms to fill the screen. This would require some work
with API calls, twips and such. Not for the beginner user.

Or you could run Access in restored mode and not in maximized mode.
Then resize the main Access window so it fits against those lines.

Tony
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[missinglinq via AccessMonster.com]

Your problem, Jeff, is not with your screen size, which everybody always
assumes, but rather with the Screen Resolution. Simple solution would be to
change the resolution on your new machine to match the old resolution. Most
people don't want to do this because they like the higher resolution; why
else buy a new machine? The other answer is as stated by Tony. Fortunately,
someone has already done the work for you! Go to this site and scroll down to
the "Access Form Resizer" and download it. I've used it before without
problems, and best of all, it's FREE!

http://jamiessoftware.tk/

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[Tony Toews]

Go to this site and scroll down to
the "Access Form Resizer" and download it. I've used it before without
problems, and best of all, it's FREE!
http://jamiessoftware.tk/

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about those type of utilities. Thanks for
reminding me.

Peter De Baets has a utility available called ShrinkerStretcher,
available From his site, http://www.peterssoftware.com
Total Access Components from FMS Inc also have one at
http://www.fmsinc.com/products/components/index.html

Another option is to use the Access <insert your version here>
Developer's Handbook, by Litwin/Getz/Gilbert, which has the code that
you can use, amongst many other very useful pieces of code. The
authors have also created MDEs that you can download from
www.developershandbook.com/downloads.htm that will work for both A97
and A2K.

In one app I created two versions of my most complex form and,
depending on the resolution, I either call one form designed for
800x600 or I called the first of two forms designed for 640x480. You
can get some code to check the current screen resolution on the
Microsoft Knowledge Base in article Q148395 at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q148/3/95.asp .

Tony
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[Ron2006]

I also went the route of the High Resolution and Low Resolution
versions of a form as Tony did.

For one thing, by doing that I could put MORE information on the screen
in a flow and a visual effect that I felt was better than with the low
resolution.

Simply changing the size of controls on the form makes BIGGER buttons
not more buttons or better placed buttons or larger subform AND better
placed buttons.

Yes, it is more work and you wish all users had the higher resolution,
etc, etc.,. But then again, I wish I was being paid more, too.


Ron