As far as I know, the "fill_screen" property only works to scale something UP,
not down. We played around with using that at a client who had all different
resolutions, so I designed a form for the smallest resolution then did a
"fill_screen" on all the other computers, but we didn't like the way the fonts
were scaled and sometimes combo boxes were cut off.
Karen
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Subject: [RBASE-L] - Scaling a form that is large to fit on a laptop display
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that:
- Is connected to 10 tables.
- Uses six Enhanced Group Boxes as containers for the data.
The Goal: to be able to scale the form to fit on a laptop. The form is 1863
wide and 1066 high. The Border Style is set to sizable. The setup works fine on
24 or 27 inch displays. So, one of the people on our team, Jim, did the
following:I found if the screen resolution on my laptop is set to 1920x1080
(recommended setting), the form displays correctly. However, I use a lower
resolution of 1440x900 to make it easier to see.One option is to manually set
the Windows screen resolution to 1920x1080 when displaying the form.Another is
to hardcode the resolution to 1920 in the After Start EEP:PROPERTY RBASE_FORM
SCALEBY '1920'Finally, it could be programmed in the After Start EEP with
something like the followingSET VAR vRes TEXT = (CVAL('SCREENSIZE')) -- Get
screen size (e.g. 1440,900)SET VAR vSize TEXT = (SSUB(vRes,1)) --
Get first number (e.g. 1440) SET VAR vNewSize TEXT = NULL
-- New screen size -- Resolution must be at least 1920 x 1080 for Property
Search form to fit on the screen. If less, then set to 1920, else leave as
is.IF vSize < '1920' THEN SET VAR vNewSize = '1920'ELSE SET VAR vNewSize
= vSizeENDIFPROPERTY RBASE_FORM SCALEBY .vNewSize Note: I found the following
in the Properties document for RBase Forms, but could not get it to
work.PROPERTY RBASE_FORM SCALEBY 'FILL_SCREEN'Possibly there is another way to
approach this. It's not something I've worked with before. Jim --
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