screen resolution

I use a laptop with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 which is the default for my laptop. I have tried other resolutions and they look bob!.
I find it very difficult to size my forms etc to run on other pcs after I have compiled them, so whats the best resolution to develop with?
Thanks :wave:

I think now a days the standard to develop on is 1024x768 (or atleast thats what my teacher told me)

But a good rule of thumb is to just develop on the lowest resolution you're willing to support

create one form with 800X600 resolution and use this form as standard template ... what ever u r resolution ... the size remails same.....
Hope it will give u some idea.....

I work for as commerical software developer, and our standard is 1024 x 768.

So far, we have had no complaints from our customers (at least none that has every use my department.)

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Originally Posted by turnbull

I use a laptop with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 which is the default for my laptop. I have tried other resolutions and they look bob!.
I find it very difficult to size my forms etc to run on other pcs after I have compiled them, so whats the best resolution to develop with?
Thanks :wave:

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Resizing forms at runtime is not that hard. I made this code to resize a form:

VB Code:

Me.Width = Screen.Width
Me.Height = Screen.Height
For i = 0 To Me.Controls.Count - 1
    With Me.Controls(i)
        .Left = .Left * theRatio
        .Width = .Width * theRatio
        .Top = .Top * theRatio
        .Height = .Height * theRatio
        If TypeName(Me.Controls(i)) = "CommandButton" Or TypeName(Me.Controls(i)) = "TextBox" Or TypeName(Me.Controls(i)) = "Frame" Or TypeName(Me.Controls(i)) = "OptionButton" Or TypeName(Me.Controls(i)) = "DataCombo" Or TypeName(Me.Controls(i)) = "MSHFlexGrid" Then
            .FontSize = .FontSize * theratio
        Else
            .Font.Size = .Font.Size * theratio
        End If
    End With
Next

where theRatio was a public variable created by dividing screen.width by the number of twips wide your screen is at the original resolution. I got that figure just by using a watch.
Later I got a laptop with widescreen, so I had to adapt the code using two variables- TheRatioH and TheRatioV. I haven't got the new code here, but it's pretty obvious.

Yes 1024 x 768 is the beast of resolutions, there is a component tat you can add to your form, which will make it suitable for lower resolutions, withuot having to to it yourself.

On the forums 5 years now HAck, WOO

Website statistics give a good indication of the resolutions used out there. At present it seems to be:
640 x 480 = 0.5%
800 x 600 = 27%
1024 x 768 = 70%
Higher = 2.5%

So although 1024 x 768 is the most popular 800 x 600 is still a large minority - therefore here we still develop for 800 x 600 and up.

Also these stats change depending on the target audience e.g. a technical audience tend to have larger screen resolutions.

HTH

DJ

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Originally Posted by turnbull

I use a laptop with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 which is the default for my laptop. I have tried other resolutions and they look bob!

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That's because LCD's have a native resolution, where each onscreen pixel is matched to a panel pixel. At lower resolutions onscreen pixels are approximated over several panel pixels and so it looks very blurry.