Strange behaviour: Control placement on form

[Damon Heron]

Hi,
I have an app that opens with a splash form with a start button. This app
was developed on a PC with regular CRT. When I run app on a laptop or pc
with a flat screen LCD monitor, the placement of the command button is off
by an inch or so and even covers up part of a label. The resolution of the
monitors is the same in all instances. Anyone have any idea why this is
happening and any cures? It really makes the splash screen look amatuerish.
I am thinking it is something about the way LCDs paint the screen, but have
no clue..... Clueless!!

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Kelvin]

Form placement in Access is based on twips which is a unit of inches
(1/1440). So if you specify the form to open at a specific location using
twips, it will appear at a specified distance from the edge of the screen.
So when your screen size changes, the form will move even if the resolution
is set the same. You can use the auto center peoperty which will put the
form in the middle of the screen everytime, regardless of the screen size or
resolution.

Kelvin

 

[Damon Heron]

I have the form on Auto Center. The form is not the problem - it is the
command button on the form that moves when viewed on LCD monitors. It moves
on the form itself....

 

[Kelvin]

You mean the button itself moves on the form. Now thats strange. The only
thing I can think of is that you have a control with the CanShrink property
set, except this should give you the same result regardless of the type of
monitor. I'm stumped. If you don't use AutoCenter do you still get the
problem?

Kelvin