Re: Screen Resolution

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed.  Make sure stuff runs at 800x600, but take advantage of the real
estate when you have it!

Also agree that size settings should be persistent.  I hate it when I've got
to re-resize everything when I open it up.

Bib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Handy
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:57 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Screen Resolution
>
> Bob,
>
> We target an 800x600 for most things.  Used to be 640x480.
>
>
> Same here.  While I used to make sure a form was usable at 640x480, I now
> consider 800x600 the minimum for designing forms.
>
> Then I typically also do the following:
>
>  - Let them size the window to suit their taste
>  - Resize controls like grids or lists to fill the space, moving anything
> necessary to keep similar control arrangement
>      (In VB, this is the OnResize event.  I assume VARPG has something
> similar.)
>  - If no controls to expand / contract, resize all objects and adjust the
> font size proportionately
>  - Save / restore the window size and positions and column widths where
> appropriate
>      (But never save the window size if it is minimized when the close /
> save occurs; Windows reports the wrong dimensions)
>
> This keeps the form usable at 800x600, but lets those with bigger
> resolutions benefit from any additional space available.