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02/11/2004 03:32:06
 
 
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02/11/2004 02:28:53
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 5
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00956586
Message ID:
00956881
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Hi again Mohammed,

seriously, you have to be realistic. If you design an application for a 14" monitor, your form is 14", period! If you want to resize the screen, you can look for "resize" on UT, but it is VERY DIFFICULT, and not just a few lines of code. In one of my application the size of the code grew to double the original size, after I had made a decent resize function and thge necessary changes in a lot of places. It's really a pain to get it work 100%. 99% is relatively easy, but the last 1% is damn hard. Especially if you want your product to look good, and not plain stupid.

That's why I recommend that you wait a few weeks until VFP9 is finished. VFP9 has some new 'anchor' properties, and these properties makes resizing a form veeeery much easier. You can easily spend two-three weeks or months now to get your system to look all right on a bigger screen, but if you wait a few weeks you can do the same job in a few minutes or hours.

Another thing you should consider: Why do people buy bigger screens, is it because they have poor eyesight and need bigger letters, or is it because they want to have more programs on screen at the same time? In nine out of 10 times, the latter is the reason.

I have two more suggestions for you:
1. Get a bigger monitor yourself. A programmer really need a biiiiig screen to work efficiently, it's the best investment you can make. Personally I always work with two 21" monitors, both running at 1600x1200.

2. Decide which resolution your program shall work on, and stick to it. If your customers want to use your program, they need monitors to handle the specified resolution, period! We now always use 1024x768, and if our customers does not have the equipment to handle that, we don't want them as customers. Cheap customers = troublemakers.

>hi,
>thank you for reply.
>
>i put your code at myform load procedure,nothing happend.
>
>best regards.
>m.qasem
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