>What's the standard for screen resolution for forms that are to be included in over-the-counter software to be sold in stores and used in homes and businesses.
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>I always thought/assumed it was 640x480. Or is it 800x600 now? I know it also depends on the application, but as a rule or on average what is considered the best screen resolution to use when developing a form in VFP that might some day be sold to the general public?
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>What do you think? Thanks for your input.

I'll respectfully disagree with the others. I think the way to decide what resolution to use is to do the amrket research. Find out what percentage of users are at each of the resolutions in the market your product is intended for and then decide how large a market you want to sell to. For example (these are made up number to demonstrate what I mean); assume that we want to sell to a market of computer game players. OUr research finds out that;

640 = 15%
800 = 50%
1024 = 20%
greater than 1024 = 15%

We decide that we want to hit 80% of our market, so we see that 800 will hit that 80%, actually 85%. The problem with going for the lower resolution in this scenario is that it may eliminate the higher end of the market.

This example is over simplified as the differing resolutions may also be involved in where the money is being spent on software. It is thoroughly possible that the 800+ resolution group is more likely to spend money on software than the 640 group is and that has to influence the decision.