Thanks Al, this was very helpful. I guess I was getting a little confused with this - as TV shows looked stretched sometimes on a computer monitor. This helped clear it up for me.

>>Perhaps someone can refresh my memory on this. In the Project options "Forms" tab, I am being asked to support older monitors for a while longer, so I had to set the max size of a form to 1024 x 768..
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>>As an example if I restrict a Form size to be no larger than 1024 x 768 this works great on older style 19" non-wide flat screen monitors. However, here is my question: is that form is run on a wide screen monitor (example 1440 x 900) would the form look "stretched" or would it still look normal? In testing, to my eye's it doesn't look stretched - but I am not sure.
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>What you're talking about is called "aspect ratio" - with monitors, usually expressed as the ratio of width to height e.g. 4:3, 16:9 etc. In your situation, as long as:
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>- the monitor is run at its maximum ("native" for LCD panels) resolution - or failing that, at a lower resolution that has the same aspect ratio as native
>- its pixels are square (for LCD panels I don't know of any that aren't)
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>then your 1024x768 form will have the same aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor as on the 4:3 panel.
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>Sometimes people find native resolution on flat panels makes things like icons too small for them, so they purposely run the panel at a lower resolution, often with a different aspect ratio from native. In those cases screen images will look fuzzy/crappy and have a different aspect ratio (too tall or too wide). But that will hold true of all programs run under those conditions, not just yours.