Re: Scale a paradox form

Thanks a lot Liz,

In the back of my head I was discussing with myself something like that.
With your pin-pointed information I tested this with success. Already I have
established a user-profile table for various settings, like printers other
stuff. Now I think I will add a registration for preferred
screen-resolution.

But is there a way to detect the user's desktop resolution so this can be
done automatically?

Bjorn

"Liz McGuire" <liz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Make sure your forms are all the same size, or pick the largest form.
Temporarily put code on the form to get the app size. Run the form,
position form and app as desired. Trigger the code, record the size of
the app, put code in init to size the app.

That's what I do. I also set the position of the app window (you can also
read size and position on exit, store them for the user, and restore them
on start-up - it's not hard (assuming your form has a startup script or
form).

Liz


Bjorn Sagbakken wrote:
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


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