Hi, Thanks to George's excellent suggestion, I spent a couple of hours last night playing with how to program, or edit, NSB programs on the device to use HiRes. Basically, once I'd worked out that using a form in the stub exe was a no-no, I came up with the following which I've posted in case anyone else wants to do this:
1) In NSB CE 8.1 on the PC create a new FORMLESS project and set the hires aware property to true. 2) Enter the following lines of code (just three - don't you just love how simple NSB can be :-): Dim nsbtorun nsbtorun = Left(CurrentPath, Len(CurrentPath)-3) & "nsb" Chain nsbtorun,False 3) Click the triangle run button to create the ce exe file, and then copy it to your device. By the way, it doesn't work if you set the end parameter of chain to true. 4) Put your nsb file in the same place as the exe file on the device, and rename one of the files so that they both have the same name, but one with an exe, and one with an nsb, file extension. 5) Run the exe file to run the nsb code in hires, or run the nsb file to run in standard res. 6) If you have more programs to run in hires, you can just copy and rename the stub exe on the device and it will still work perfectly. OK, you have to use up 200k for each stub, but on a memory card these days that's not much. 7) You can now edit the nsb code as usual, but also test in hires when needed. Once a program is finished I plan then to compile it on the PC to remove the stub file and add resources, etc. However, when I'm developing programs, this method allows me to do so on the device and still have hires. Maybe most people don't use the device IDE much, but I find it invaluable for coding and making minor edits when away from a PC. 8) As George has said, the width and height properties can be used to find out the screen size, so as to write the code to allow for different control layouts. I've found that I don't get just a scaled version of my controls, but have to change the fontsize of controls, and their spacing, for it to work OK in hires, but it isn't difficult to set the control sizes and positions at runtime dependent on screen size. Anyway, I hope that's useful to someone. Best wishes, Andrew. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nsb-ce" group. To post to this group, send email to nsb-ce@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nsb-ce+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nsb-ce?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
