"Alan Ingleby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> This is an issue for all developers.
>
> What happens to our programs which presume screen size of 160x160?
>
> Is there any sample code which shows how we can take these varying
> resolutions into account?
I'd expect that the default mode has the hardware LCD controller double
every pixel, so there is no effect.
If you look at the 3.5 API, all the hooks are already there for higher
resolutions. You can pass a width and height to WinScreenMode's
winScreenModeSet command. The one hole in 3.5's API is the ability to get
the supported screen dimensions; you can get the color depths, and you can
get the dimensions of the current mode, but there is no discovery mechanism
to find out sizes other than 160x160 are available.
WinGetDisplayExtent may work if it always returns the maximum resolution.
However, that might not work for software that assumed that it returned the
extent of the current display mode.
I wonder if you could implement a pseduo-160x160 mode where you doubled all
the coordinates and extents in a form at form load time and then drew the
controls at the higher resolution? You'd still have to manage the standard
drawing functions as if you were in 160x160 mode, but it might be an
interesting project.
--
Ben Combee
Veriprise Wireless <http://www.veriprise.com>
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