So - what do you all think? Design screen sizes at something like 1280x700??? And, what if some users at one of our client companies have smaller screens? They will Totally have their database system screens get chopped off - and I think that would SUCK!
I still design everything to be full screen or smaller at a resolution of 640 x 480. (Actually, a "full size" child form in my framework is 588 x 376 so it can fit inside my custom top-level main window, with room for the vestigial Office 97 vertical toolbar, since that was still ubiquitous when I designed the framework.)
There are lots of people who can't deal with tiny type at high resolutions, even on big screens. Not only people with visual disabilities, but also ordinary middle-aged people with less than 20/20 vision with or without glasses. And the built-in Windows "enlarging" stuff isn't as convenient as actually being able to see the entire form all at once, but large enough. It's an accessibility/ease-of-use issue. "Everybody oughtta have ... by now.." and "everybody oughtta know how to...[use this or that generic work-around for inconvenient stuff] by now" just annoys users. Why annoy them when, with a bit of extra work, we can make them actually enjoy using our software?
My framework also includes resizing code built into all of the visual controls (I did it before "anchors" came out), and it will resize the font as well as the dimensions of controls. I don't think it always produces a pretty result but at modest levels of resizing it looks quite good.
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