Thanks, I can see potential for this to work on the one problematic pc. It can test for the resolution and if necessary programmatically resize the form.
James E Harvey Corresponding Officer/M.I.S. Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc. www.hanoverpa.com office: 717-637-8931 cell: 717-887-2565 fax: 717-637-6766 -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rafael Copquin Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 2:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: maximum design area Do this: set your monitor size to 800 x 600 (just exagerating the test :-) ) in the init event of your form thisform.Height = Sysmetric(2 ) - 150 thisform.Width = Sysmetric(1) - 30 thisform.Left = 10 Run the form and see what happens I just did this (my monitor is usually 1280 x 1024) The form fits perfectly in the screen area. Rafael Copquin El 25/10/2012 01:03 p.m., Fred Taylor escribió: > The "Maximum Design Area" is just a helper to make sure you haven't > gone over a pre-set limit you may need to adhere to for your other > users of your system. It doesn't impact the size in any way. > > Fred > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:41 AM, James Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I set each form manually. >> >> Not that I'm trying to excuse my behavior, but I am an in-house >> developer, and our apps are somewhat static, so I'm not creating new >> forms, and have not taken the opportunity to create a form class. >> >> Sysmetric in the command window shows a 1920x1080 resolution no >> matter what setting is in the options. So the size of the form isn't >> directly related to resolution, other than screens might not show in >> their totality without some resizing efforts on the end user's part. >> >> >> >> James E Harvey >> Corresponding Officer/M.I.S. >> Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc. >> www.hanoverpa.com >> office: 717-637-8931 >> cell: 717-887-2565 >> fax: 717-637-6766 >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Frank Cazabon >> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:55 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: maximum design area >> >> But when you create a new form, what is the height and width? Do you >> base your new form on a class? >> >> Frank. >> >> Frank Cazabon >> >> On 25/10/2012 10:38 AM, James Harvey wrote: >>> I usually use a standard of height = 750 and width = 1150. >>> >>> James E Harvey >>> Corresponding Officer/M.I.S. >>> Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc. >>> www.hanoverpa.com >>> office: 717-637-8931 >>> cell: 717-887-2565 >>> fax: 717-637-6766 >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Frank Cazabon >>> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:33 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: maximum design area >>> >>> You need to check your form's width and height to see what it is >>> defaulting to. >>> >>> Frank. >>> >>> Frank Cazabon >>> >>> On 25/10/2012 08:44 AM, James Harvey wrote: >>>> Do you think my forms are defaulting to my pc's resolution >>>> (1920x1080) since "None" is the setting in my options, or since the >>>> 1920x1080 is not listed as an option, does it choose a setting close. >>>> >>>> I looked for a resolution property for the form, but it doesn't >>>> exist, so I wonder how you tell what resolution a form was designed >>>> under when the maximum design area options setting is "None". >>>> >>>> >>>> James E Harvey >>>> Corresponding Officer/M.I.S. >>>> Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc. >>>> www.hanoverpa.com >>>> office: 717-637-8931 >>>> cell: 717-887-2565 >>>> fax: 717-637-6766 >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>>> Paul Newton >>>> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:58 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: RE: maximum design area >>>> >>>> I don't think there is a "standard" resolution but here we do not >>>> support resolutions less than 1080 x 768 >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On >>>> Behalf Of James Harvey >>>> Sent: 25 October 2012 12:47 >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: maximum design area >>>> >>>> I was under the sorely mistaken impression that I had set the >>>> maximum design area to 1024 x 768 under the Tools - Options - Forms >>>> tab. This was the old setting before I formatted by HDD and forgot >>>> to reset this default. It has been set at (None) for about a year now. >>>> >>>> My pc's resolution is 1920 x 1080. >>>> >>>> The resolutions available under the VFP 9 "Forms" tab are: >>>> >>>> (None) >>>> 640x480 >>>> 800x600 >>>> 1024x768 >>>> 1152x882 >>>> 1280x1024 >>>> 1600x1200 >>>> >>>> Any advice on what a "Standard" resolution is now-a-days? >>>> >>>> If I leave the setting at (None) does that mean it defaults to my >>>> pc's resolution of 1920x1080? >>>> >>>> Most of our pc's are Win7 with 23-24 inch wide screen monitors, so >>>> there isn't a problem, but one of the users has a laptop, >>>> resolution in >>> the 1300x? >>>> range, and he has trouble seeing the entire form, and has to click >>>> and drag corners to resize to his form. He is the only one with >>>> this issue, so far, and it must be due to the resolution settings. >>>> >>>> >>>> James E Harvey >>>> Corresponding Officer/M.I.S. >>>> Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc. >>>> www.hanoverpa.com >>>> office: 717-637-8931 >>>> cell: 717-887-2565 >>>> fax: 717-637-6766 >>>> >>>> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
