Resizing a form and it's fields in proportion

[Guest]

Hi.

I'd like to increase the size of a number of forms, now that my users have
been given larger widescreen monitors. Is there a way of increasing the
width/height of a form and at the same time increase the width/height of all
the fields/labels/buttons etc on the form? The only thing I can imagine doing
at present is to stretch the form and then reposition/resize all the fields
one at a time.

Thanks,

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Unfortunately, what you've described is the only way.

There are 3rd party solutions out there that may help.

The Access 2000 Developer's Handbook, Vol. 1 included code to automate the
process. The authors have made an MDE version of that code available for
free at http://www.developershandbook.com/downloads.htm

There's also ShrinkerStretcher at http://www.peterssoftware.com/ss.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick reply Doug.

Pity about that. I'll have a look at the links you've suggested.

Cheers,

 

[Rick Brandt]

Hi.

I'd like to increase the size of a number of forms, now that my users
have been given larger widescreen monitors. Is there a way of
increasing the width/height of a form and at the same time increase
the width/height of all the fields/labels/buttons etc on the form?
The only thing I can imagine doing at present is to stretch the form
and then reposition/resize all the fields one at a time.

Thanks,

Why would you think users would want everything larger just because they got
larger displays? If they wanted that they would run the new larger display at a
lower resolution.

Now if you wanted to use the extra real estate to show them MORE stuff as
opposed to bigger stuff that would make sense.