A web page can resize it's fonts. Should a program?
In general, do the reasons for keeping fonts universally small in all programs for programmer convenience, outweigh users who may want words bigger than MS Sans Serif size 8 (unchangable default for 98% of all programs).
I am suggesting "floating" User Interface. Like a web page. The pictures, buttons, wrap around words. If it's too big, it scrolls.
I don't want every programmer to do 6x more work for some users. But it does seem unfair.
I understand that many people have all sorts of strains from sitting at a computer all day, lest we need to force the smallest legible font all the time? We can make the OS interface bigger, so should too be less-hardcoded our programs?
Can some standard be made to eventually allow soft coding pieces in VB? I know I can makes button positions move according to the size of labels around them, but that's tedious for each object... Some kind of automation is what I'm thinking...
Last edited by postitlord; May 21st, 2002 at 07:29 PM.
It can be done, but for all but the simplest of forms, it's very difficult. You can buy commercial "resize" controls, but I don't know how well they work. You can use a select case statement to hard code sizes for a range of screen resolutions.
You can also use more forms with fewer controls and make everything so it fits the smallest resolution and is still big enough for larger resolutions.
In other words, there are a lot of resolutions to the problem.
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