Re: Scale a paradox form

Enlightening and interesting, and of course absolutely right.

But how to use opal to resize the Paradox outer shell (the Paradox windows
application) to fit the form precisely?

With Paradox 11 I have problems with the form zoom property because
text-editing gets a weird lag with the cursor(Bertil has described and
confirmed this phenomena) So with this problem in mind there is almost a
*must* to use a form scale of 100%. But I should very much like to know how
to resize the Paradox application to fit the form, so the users (with
different screen resolutions) don't have to do this manually. Any tip?

Bjorn


"Liz McGuire" <liz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Amen. To see that this is the standard way Windows works, do this:

1. Open the display properties window (right click on blank area of
Windows desktop, choose Properties). Go to the Settings tab. Make note
of the resolution.

2. Note how much space on the screen the dialog occupies.

3. Now change the resolution to something lower than it currently is and
apply (Do NOT close the dialog).

4. Note how much space on the screen the dialog occupies - it occupies
more space.

5. Now change the resolution to something higher than it originally was
and apply (again, do NOT close the dialog).

6. Note how much space on the screen the dialog occupies - it occupies
less space.

7. Repeat for each resolution.

The dialog does NOT change size. It *looks* bigger or smaller based on
the resolution.

If your form is designed to take the whole screen at 800x600, leave it
that way. When I run your form at 1920x1280, it will take up a small
portion of my screen (800x600 pixels, to be exact) and that is exactly
what I want.

Liz


Dennis Santoro wrote:

So, in summary, pick a size. Design for it. Forget zoom.


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