screen resolution

[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

[kfcSmitty]

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

[poison6feet]

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.....

[Hack]

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.)

[anguswalker]

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

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

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.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

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

[dj4uk]

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

[penagate]

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!

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.