--- Henry Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the first time I have to deploy an application across > a variety of machines with a variety of desktop sizes. > I wonder how I should design my forms to make this work. > > I would like certain forms to almost fill the screen regardless > of desktop size. But they don't: on smaller desktops they are > too big, on big ones they are too small. > > My questions: > > 0. What are the units of the numbers the Form Editor produces. > They don't seem to be pixels, but they seem to be related to pixels.
It might be 2 pixel units. > 1. Is there a way I am supposed to design my forms to make the form > sizes a fixed proportion of the screen size? Design a form to fit minimal screen. Then after form is shown, query screen size and programmatically resize the form. > 2. I suppose it would be easy enough to scale all the numbers in > a form using something like > <.@(scalefactor&*)&.".^:([: *./ '0123456789 ' e.~ ])&.>&.;: FORM > if I could figure out the scale factor. wd 'qscreen' seems to > be applicable. What is a logical inch as used in qscreen? > > Henry Rich > Take into account both form and screen adornments (task bar, etc). See screen metrics. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
