Ken - I totally agree with you - initially designing at a smaller size resolution. Especially since there MAY Be clients with older monitors - at lower Rez - and making a HiRez screen that comes up and you can only see 1/3 of it - really WOULD Suck. And, I am Also one of those people who are now getting frustrated w/society making all things such a Small font. Like Medicine bottles. Hell - even on a can of Spray paint. Even with Glasses on (cheap basic ones from Drug store - non-prescrip.) - I still have a hard time reading what's on that Spray Paint can!
So - for now - I'm going to continue to design the basic Forms at like 776x480, and then let users do the Re-Sizing with this new Resizing tool I am using. I even tested it on a screen with a Grid - and another with a Large Text Editing Box - and both screens look GREAT when Scaled up in size! -K- -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Dibble Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Screen Res. Design & Monitor Sizes... >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. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1D06D3A2D0734A39A3B9CD077FF8947F@Programming2 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
