Hi Timothy,

Sorry, I don't have an access to computer these few days. Anyway, to me this sounds like you may want to create a form class and base your forms on this class. If you already have a base form class perhaps you can just add this functionality to your existing class.

>Naomi, I decided to use the code below to resize, my quest is how do I actually implement this code into a form? Don't I need a vcx? I need to be able to drop it into a form?
>

>**************************************************
>*-- Class:        frmmaximize
>*-- ParentClass:  form
>*-- Self maximizing form for sovereign applications
>*
>
>oform1=CREATEOBJECT("fmax")
>susp
>oform1.Show()
>
>
>Define Class fmax As Form
>  DoCreate = .T.
>  *-- SYSMETRIC( 1 ) / 640
>  widthratio = 0
>  *-- SYSMETRIC( 2 ) / 480
>  heightratio = 0
>  Name = "fmax"
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  *-- Drill down into pageframes, pages, grids, etc on the form and resize all of the controls
>  Procedure resizecontrols
>    Lparameters toControl
>    Local loPage, loControl, loColumn, lnColumnWidths[1], lnCol
>
>    If Pemstatus( toControl, 'Width', 5 )
>      toControl.Width = toControl.Width * Thisform.widthratio
>    Endif
>    If Pemstatus( toControl, 'Height', 5 )
>      toControl.Height = toControl.Height * Thisform.heightratio
>    Endif
>    If Pemstatus( toControl, 'Top', 5 )
>      toControl.Top = toControl.Top * Thisform.heightratio
>    Endif
>    If Pemstatus( toControl, 'Left', 5 )
>      toControl.Left = toControl.Left * Thisform.heightratio
>    Endif
>    *** Now resize the font of the control, grid (naturally <g>) is a special case because
>    *** resizing the font resizes the column widths of the grid, so save and restore them
>    If Upper( Alltrim( toControl.BaseClass ) ) = 'GRID'
>      Dimension lnColumnWidths[toControl.ColumnCount]
>      For lnCol = 1 To toControl.ColumnCount
>        lnColumnWidths[lnCol] = toControl.Columns[lnCol].Width
>      Endfor
>      toControl.FontSize = Int( toControl.FontSize * Thisform.widthratio )
>      For lnCol = 1 To toControl.ColumnCount
>        toControl.Columns[lnCol].Width = lnColumnWidths[lnCol]
>      Endfor
>    Else
>      If Pemstatus( toControl, 'Fontsize', 5 )
>        toControl.FontSize = Int( toControl.FontSize * Thisform.widthratio )
>      Endif
>    Endif
>    Do Case
>      Case Upper( toControl.BaseClass ) = 'PAGEFRAME'
>        For Each loPage In toControl.Pages
>          Thisform.resizecontrols( loPage )
>        Endfor
>
>      Case Inlist( Upper( toControl.BaseClass ), 'PAGE', 'CONTAINER' )
>        For Each loControl In toControl.Controls
>          Thisform.resizecontrols( loControl )
>        Endfor
>
>      Case Upper( toControl.BaseClass ) = 'GRID'
>        With toControl
>          .RowHeight     = .RowHeight * Thisform.heightratio
>          .HeaderHeight  = .HeaderHeight * Thisform.heightratio
>          For Each loColumn In .Columns
>            loColumn.Width = loColumn.Width * Thisform.widthratio
>          Endfor
>        Endwith
>
>      Case Inlist( Upper( toControl.BaseClass ), 'COMBOBOX', 'LISTBOX' )
>        Local lnCol, lnStart, lnEnd, lnLen, lcColumnWidths
>        With toControl
>          If .ColumnCount < 2
>            .ColumnWidths = Alltrim( Str( .Width ) )
>          Else
>            lcColumnWidths = ''
>            lnStart = 1
>            For lnCol = 1 To .ColumnCount - 1
>              lnEnd = At( ',', .ColumnWidths, lnCol )
>              lnLen = lnEnd - lnStart
>              lcColumnWidths = lcColumnWidths + Iif( Empty( lcColumnWidths ), '', ',' ) + Alltrim( Str( Val (Substr( .ColumnWidths, lnStart, lnLen ) ) * Thisform.widthratio ) )
>              lnStart = lnEnd + 1
>            Endfor
>            lnLen = Len( .ColumnWidths ) - lnStart + 1
>            lcColumnWidths = lcColumnWidths + ',' + Alltrim( Str( Val (Substr( .ColumnWidths, lnStart, lnLen ) ) * Thisform.widthratio ) )
>            .ColumnWidths = lcColumnWidths
>          Endif
>        Endwith
>
>      Case Inlist( Upper( Alltrim( toControl.BaseClass ) ), 'COMMANDGROUP', 'OPTIONGROUP' )
>        Local lnButton
>        For lnButton = 1 To toControl.ButtonCount
>          Thisform.resizecontrols( toControl.Buttons[lnButton] )
>        Endfor
>
>      Otherwise
>        *** There is no otherwise...I think we got all cases
>    Endcase
>  Endproc
>
>
>  Procedure Init
>    Local loControl
>
>    With Thisform
>      *** Determine the ratio needed to maximize the form
>      *** depending on screen resolution and store it to form properties
>      .widthratio = Sysmetric( 1 ) / 640
>      .heightratio = Sysmetric( 2 ) / 480
>      *** If resolution is higher than 640 x 480, reposition
>      *** and maximize the form
>      If .widthratio > 1
>        .Top = 0
>        .Left = 0
>        .Width = .Width * .widthratio
>        .Height = .Height * .heightratio
>        *** And resize each control contained in the form
>        For Each loControl In .Controls
>          .resizecontrols( loControl )
>        Endfor
>      Endif
>    Endwith
>  Endproc
>
>
>Enddefine