System text dimensions affecting Forms visualization

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Ale

I've noticed that large (instead of normal) text
dimension (Set in Desktop Options) affect the
visualization of my Access application.
I've tried to run my application on a Windows 2000
System : Text dimensions are too big :all controls
captions are cut off!
The strange is that on XP Systems only Forms captions
have large text but controls appear ok.
Is not a problem of Screen resolution just System text
dimensions .
Is this a known problem? Is there a solution?
Thank you in advance
Alex
 
One solution is to resize your forms when they open to account for the
large font display setting. There are third-party form scaling
solutions available that will help with this:

A shareware version of a form rescaling module I wrote called
ShrinkerStretcher is available at this web site:
http://www.peterssoftware.com/ss.htm

The Access Developer's Handbook has form resizing code included:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0782119417/107-8064361-7403703

Hope this helps,

Peter De Baets
Peter's Software - MS Access Tools for Developers
http://www.peterssoftware.com
 
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