Display problems

[Blinky Bill]

Hi,
I have a problem with my application running on a 17" monitor. What is happening is that my application has a background image which is set to the max size of my app window. What i have done is set the window to fixed single so that it cannot be resized and made the window fit the exact image dimensions, so that the background fills the entire window. This is what happens on 7 of the 8 computers this app is installed on, but the 8th computer, the one with the 17" monitor (all the others have 14-15"), has the problem of the app window being larger than the background image, leaving the image filling only the top left corner and leaving the forms background colour to show in the app window. The real problem this causes is the image boxes i am using as full graphical buttons are not in the correct position as they are empty images placed over the background image locations they should be in. Has anyone had this problem before and got a solution to the problem??

Thanx in advance

[drewski]

I don't think your problem is the actual size of the computer monitor. I think it's the screen resolution that the monitor is on. The 17" monitor probably has higher resolution capablity so it displays more on the screen. You can use an ImageBox for your background pic and stretch it to fit the screen. Ofcourse you'll probably need to write code, though, to arrange the buttons at different resolutions. Another solution is, other than rearranging, is to change the user's screen resolution to match what you are developing it in. I can't give you code to do this though, sorry. You can find it in the forums or I think vbworld has a tutorial on it somewhere.

Hope this helps.

[Blinky Bill]

Hi,
thanks for the tip, i didn't really think it was the size of the monitor itself. But regards the resizing of the app, to run properly, it has to be 1024x768 so i have used the source code from this site to resize the app to that already. This code works fine, and the problem isn't confined to a single app either, another app i developed (the installer for the main app) has the exact same problem.

hope this helps someone help me,

Thanks.

[PsychoMark]

It's generally a bad idea to fix a program to one resolution btw, especially for an installer... that's just plain rude...