>>Any advice on what a "Standard" resolution is now-a-days?
I don't think there is a "standard" resolution but here we do not support
resolutions less than 1080 x 768
This is an accessibility issue, and not just for people with identified
disabilities.
There are people still choosing to run their monitors at 800 x 600 so that
the text is large enough for them to see--just ordinary middle-aged people
who wear glasses.
Yes, there is screen magnification software, both 3rd. party and built into
Windows. However, if you want to have a frustrating experience, try
actually using it. It's a PITA to constantly have to scroll your field of
view around a screen in order to read what's there.
It's much kinder to design a GUI for the lowest-common denominator of
visual acuity. Then nobody has to use any special software--and have their
productivity slowed down thereby--to get work done.
I design all my forms to be no larger than full screen at 640 x 480
(actually, they are smaller than that--my main window class is 601 x 427 to
accomodate a standard-height task bar and the old Office Toolbar docked to
the side of the desktop, and all my other windows fit inside that main
window). They are resizable above those minimums up to twice their natural
width and height, and if the computer is running at higher resolutions, the
main window will default to full screen up to 1040 x 768, and the most
commonly-used child window will be sized larger as well.
Here are some screen shots of my main product. Say what you will about my
design, but you can't say that 640 x 480 is too small to get it all in.
http://www.stic-cil.org/CILData/cildatascreens.html
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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