Re: anyone used a form resizer

Wayne wrote:
Rick, It never ceases to amaze me how some users will set an LCD
screen to less than native resolution in an attempt to make everything
"bigger" and are content to live with the extreme blurriness of the
image that results. Even more amazing is that sometimes when this is
drawn to the user's attention, they didn't realise that the blurriness
was there!

One factor that encourages this at our company is that a lot of these people
spend a considerable amount of time accessing programs on our AS400 with 5250
emulation software. Most use Rumba which automatcially scales the font to the
window size and guess what? A LOT of these users maximize that and end up with
characters close to a half inch tall. Of course every Windows app looks like
the fonts are too small! They have grown accustomed to the huge clown-fonts in
their emulator window.

In this age of LCDs and high screen resolutions, I find the lack of
screen real estate offered by 800 x 600 to be a huge limiting factor
when designing forms with lots of controls, especially if they contain
a subform or 2. If the minimum screen resolution that the database
will run at is stated in the quote/scope of work and the client signs
off on this, the problem is solved.

For those with more reasonable resolution settings I use the resize event so
they can make forms taller to see MORE data rather than bigger data. Where an
800 X 600 user might only see 3 or 4 records in the continuous subform, others
might see as many as 20 sub-records by increasing the height of the parent form.

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com



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