Well in the past I didn't worry about such things, except of course to make sure that I never created a form that was bigger than 400 x 600 pixels, but in this case I'm doing some strange re-sizing at runtime depending upon whether are not some combination of groups are opened or closed, and taking into account the individual opened height of those that are...then re-sizing the height of the form dynamically so that the scrollbars don't appear. This will be an option of course but as I began working out the mechanics it started to bother me that perhaps all these little adjustments may cause me problems at different resolutions than what I design it at. Perhaps not but as I've never done any re-sizing on my own like this at runtime I thought it might be a good idea to start thinking about it! <g> I am in the process right now of setting up a dummy model to see what happens so that I'll know for sure.
>From "Robert Meek" Personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dba / "Tangentals Design" Visit us at: www.TangentalsDesign.com Home of "The Keep"! Member of: "Association of Shareware Professionals" Moderator for: "The Delphi", "Delphi-DB", and "Delphi-Talk" programming lists at elists.org, and "DelphiTalk.net" at www.DelphiTalk.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Burns Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:14 PM To: 'Borland's Delphi Discussion List' Subject: RE: Resizing w/Constants vs. Variables as a baseline minimum D2005 > In order to make this solution viable for all > resolutions I thought In order to make any program work for all resolutions, then don't do anything regarding resolutions. 100x100 is 100x100 in ANY resolution. > say I want to enable the app for > the four most > commonly used resolutions, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1152 x 864, > and 1280 x 768. A programmer doesn't have to do anything to "enable" an application for any resolution. Unless you desire to "scale" the application so it "looks" the same at any resolution, which is a silly thing to do, is offensive to the user and contradicts 99.9% of /your/ software experience, don't fiddle with anything! :) The common issue with resolution usually has to do with database forms or views and programmers that want to have those views scale from one users resolution to the next. Even this is a silly thing to do by default. Let the user gain the ADVANTAGES he desires by running in the resolution he desires. A programmer steps out-of-line when he scales his application up so when the user increases his resolution the he gains nothing because the application adjusts and is just as big as it was at the lower resolution. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your problem, if so clarify away. But I'd sure like to know what other piece of software you've encountered that's lead you to believe this is something to worry about. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Burns, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technology Dynamics Pearland, Texas USA 281 485-0410 / 281 813-6939 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
