What is a standard resolution?

[Leroy_Brown]

Hi there.......for a proffesional product, is there any standard screen resolution the system should be designed for??

I just finished a product for my boss that looks beutiful on my 1024 x 768 but not so nice on her 800 x 600.

Any experienced opinions would be helpful.

[filburt1]

Your program should always be useable at 640x480.

[Leroy_Brown]

Yikes...that is the answer i expected but desperately did not want to hear. How can anyone work with that low of resolution? I don't get it??

Ahh well....back to the drawing board

[chrisjk]

640x480 is really antiquated, nobody uses that anymore. Develop for 800x600...anyone with anything less will have to buy a better graphics card

[RSINGH]

You should try and make it resolution independent. There are 3rd party controls that can do this or you could code it yourself. There stuff at planetsourcecode.com which is free but may need some modification. Sorts your problem out!

[filburt1]

Originally posted by chrisjk
640x480 is really antiquated, nobody uses that anymore. Develop for 800x600...anyone with anything less will have to buy a better graphics card

We have nice 17-inchers at school on these new ultra-cool-looking Dells, but the admins are stupid and run them at 640x480x60 Hz. Also remember that many projectors look best at 640x480.

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by filburt1


We have nice 17-inchers at school on these new ultra-cool-looking Dells, but the admins are stupid and run them at 640x480x60 Hz. Also remember that many projectors look best at 640x480.

go round the room and hike the res without them noticing, or complain bitterly of eye-strain or something

640 is soooooo crap I can't believe people still use it...oh well

[Serge]

I use 1600x1200 (byt thats me)

[filburt1]

Originally posted by chrisjk
go round the room and hike the res without them noticing, or complain bitterly of eye-strain or something

640 is soooooo crap I can't believe people still use it...oh well

They are running Windows 2000 and felt the need to stop you from doing...ANYTHING. They even locked out the Find Files thing.

Serge: I'm running at 1280x1024, but I'd go higher if my monitor supported a higher resolution that didn't go below 85 Hz.

[RSINGH]

I tend to find novice and older users tend to use the lower resolutions for the following reasons.

1) They haven't got a clue how to change it or didn't know that you could.
2) Some people have difficulty seeing things 'small' on their screen and so they down the res.

You have to cater for people with less than perfect eyesight. Whether you cater for stupidity is a personal preference.

[Leroy_Brown]

I had a feeling this may spark some opinions

[Melanie]

I develop my app with a 1024 resolution too...but after I change it for 800X600 and not all of my controls appear because my form is too long...So someone gives me a brilliant code and it works fine!!!

Someone else gave me another solution...I wait for the demo... He said that we can do like games, Fix the resolution when the user is in the app and resize it after...

[Edneeis]

I had a similar problem and some of my screens just liked need more space than 640x480 provided so i started making scrollable forms. Its kinda of annoying for the low res users but at least it all fits. Actually it resizes 1 higher or 1 lower than design res otherwise its the scrollbars.

[Leroy_Brown]

Sure....let me see whatever it is you have. I ended up resizing my forms to be respecatable in 800 x 600 but i'm allways open to other options.

[peet]

Do u have a lot of resizing code that has to be added Leroy?

It doesn't have to be that much work, if u plan it a bit (planning is a bit late i suppose )

I usually try making my forms resizeble to at least the 800X600 res. (don't think there are many people using 640X 480 anymore)

i tried out some 3rd party controls way back, but they all made my life miserable, so now I do it 'manually'

[peet]

Originally posted by Leroy_Brown
I had a feeling this may spark some opinions

now lets add some wood to the fire.. whats peoples opinions on Large Fonts ?

[Leroy_Brown]

I think i mentioned it in my first post that i am using access 97. I did some searches for resizing code but everything i came up with won't work in VBA. There is no width and height properties in VBA.

I have evrything fitting into 800 x 600 now but I allways like to find a better solution if possible.

I am a student on a work term so this is my first project and I got yet another lesson in why better planning is essential

Live and Learn!

[Melanie]

Hey Edneeis

I already try programming scrollbars (vertical and horizontal) but it wasn't working at all...I have forms with a big frame on each and SStab in that form...It was very annoying so I gave up...

But I think the scrollbars is the best solution..

Can you give me the code on how to program these scrollbars please?

thanks

[Edneeis]

I used a class and some code from vbAccelerator it works good, but you have to include his Subclass dll unless you download that and take the needed code out of it. I just used his dll.

http://vbaccelerator.com/codelib/ssubtmr/sbrclass.htm