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What's the standard?
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21/09/1999 17:00:17
 
 
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21/09/1999 14:25:50
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Visual FoxPro
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Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
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00267012
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00267338
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So far, I have had no complaints. I have found it to be the best solution as opposed to developing for one or all resolutions.


>Jeff (and Bruce, since you suggested a similar strategy)-
>
>I think this strategy is severely politically incorrect. If a user has his screen resolution set to 640x480, it is because that user wants to see everything large. He can go around his entire operating system and look at every application, and nearly all will have similar or identiacally sized textboxes, fonts, buttons, etc. Then he goes to your app, which just resized all of its elements to cram all the controls you deemed necessary to fit in the user's tiny screen. Now your app is the only app on the machine with small buttons and text. And the only app in which the far-sighted use has to squint to read the UI. The same goes for users with unusually high resolutions- I set my resolution high because I like to fit a lot of stuff on the screen. But your app just blew itself up to cover my valuable screen real-estate, negating all the benefits of my huge monitor.
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>Is this really what you want to do to your users? Didn't they make the size decision when they set their resolution in the first place?
- Jeff
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