Forms viewed on other computers problem

[mon]

Hi Dear Helpers
I have finally got to the stage of testing my project on
other computers. Woe is me, the forms are too lafge in
some cases and the control button text is not fully
visible in other cases. Help!
Thanks for this and thanks for all the other patient help.
Mon

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Sounds as though not all the computers are set to the same resolution.
Usually, you design for the lowest resolution. If you want, you can add code
to resize the forms when you encounter higher resolution.

If you get whichever Access Developer's Handbook by Litwin, Getz and Gilbert
is appropriate for the version of Access you're using, it includes code to
do this. See http://www.developershandbook.com/ for more details about these
books, or you can download an MDE add-in that you can use in your
application from http://www.developershandbook.com/downloads.htm

Another option is to purchase ShrinkerStretch from Peter De Baets
http://www.peterssoftware.com/

There's also some code that does this at
http://jamiessoftware.tk/resizeform/rf_download.html but I don't know
anything about that specific code.

 

[Mike Painter]

Sounds as though not all the computers are set to the same resolution.
Usually, you design for the lowest resolution. If you want, you can add code
to resize the forms when you encounter higher resolution.

<snip>

If the resolution is the same but you still get the problem check desktop
properties for the setting under settings/advanced. If the DPI or font size
is set to something over 100% this may cause some problems.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

<snip>

If the resolution is the same but you still get the problem check desktop
properties for the setting under settings/advanced. If the DPI or font size
is set to something over 100% this may cause some problems.

Good point, Mike.

 

[mon]

Thanks for your help. I have copied your comments to my
Access Help file. For the short term I have changed my
resolution on my computer to 640x480 and redisigned the
forms. Is that the thing to do at this stage??
Thanks again
Mon