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Designing forms for a lower screen res
Hi
I'm developing an Access app on a laptop with a 1440x900 wide-screen display. I know this application is going to have some very crowded forms, and that the users will be viewing them on non-wide-screen monitors (don't know exactly what res yet, but the screen will certainly be a different shape). Of course I can't change the display res of my screen (it's a laptop screen); so does anyone know of an easy way to calculate the pixel screen size of a form, e.g. from its twip-size? This is just so that I can design my forms to the users' maximum available screen space from the start. The laptop will feed to an external monitor at all kinds of resolutions, but I don't have an external monitor. I'm not really interested in any clever run-time resizing according to the current resolution - just in making sure the transition from my wide laptop screen to the users' non-wide monitors doesn't screw up because I've placed controls "over the edge". thanks seb |
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Designing forms for a lower screen res
Seb,
I think your approach is a good one, i.e. designing for the minimum screen that the application will be used at. Are you sure you can't adjust the resolution of your laptop screen? Never seen this before! If it was mine, I wouldn't try messing with calculations. I would figure out what screen size you need to cater to, find/borrow a computer with such a moniitor, temporarily run your application as it is at the moment on this computer and see how it will look. You will then be able to easily see the maximum size (cm or in.) you should use for your forms, and then you can continue your development within these limits. -- Steve Schapel, Microsoft Access MVP sebt wrote: Hi I'm developing an Access app on a laptop with a 1440x900 wide-screen display. I know this application is going to have some very crowded forms, and that the users will be viewing them on non-wide-screen monitors (don't know exactly what res yet, but the screen will certainly be a different shape). Of course I can't change the display res of my screen (it's a laptop screen); so does anyone know of an easy way to calculate the pixel screen size of a form, e.g. from its twip-size? This is just so that I can design my forms to the users' maximum available screen space from the start. The laptop will feed to an external monitor at all kinds of resolutions, but I don't have an external monitor. I'm not really interested in any clever run-time resizing according to the current resolution - just in making sure the transition from my wide laptop screen to the users' non-wide monitors doesn't screw up because I've placed controls "over the edge". thanks seb |
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Designing forms for a lower screen res
sebt wrote:
Hi I'm developing an Access app on a laptop with a 1440x900 wide-screen display. I know this application is going to have some very crowded forms, and that the users will be viewing them on non-wide-screen monitors (don't know exactly what res yet, but the screen will certainly be a different shape). Of course I can't change the display res of my screen (it's a laptop screen); so does anyone know of an easy way to calculate the pixel screen size of a form, e.g. from its twip-size? This is just so that I can design my forms to the users' maximum available screen space from the start. The laptop will feed to an external monitor at all kinds of resolutions, but I don't have an external monitor. I'm not really interested in any clever run-time resizing according to the current resolution - just in making sure the transition from my wide laptop screen to the users' non-wide monitors doesn't screw up because I've placed controls "over the edge". thanks seb I just use the dimensions in design view of the form. Limiting forms to no more than 7 inches wide by 4 inches tall provides a form that will fit on an 800 by 600 screen with a bit of room for a menu bar and tool bar. Actually on a couple of forms where I was really cramped I have gone as high as 7.4 by 4.3, but if the user has increased the Windows font size those start to creep off the edges of some screens. I'm pretty close to declaring 1024 by 768 as my new minimum supported resolution (at least for internal company apps). We are pretty close to being an All-LCD-display shop now and there are only a handful of people who are still running 800 by 600. I tell you, that's going to feel like moving into a new house. Sometimes 7 by 4 is just too small to do a form properly. -- Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP Email (as appropriate) to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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Designing forms for a lower screen res
Even with a laptop you should be able to change screen resolution. That aside,
here's a link that has a form resizer that, when incorporated in your db, will automatically adjust your forms, controls, etc to whatever screen resolution is being used. I've only done limited testing on it, but it seems to hold up well. http://jamiessoftware.tk/resizeform/rf_jump.html -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...forms/200612/1 |
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