Re: PC5250 full screen problem

James:

As far as I can recall, IBM's Client Access PC5250 emulator has always had this problem. It has to do with the underlying screen resolution. With newer PCs and monitors, you can set the Windows resolution to much higher than say, 1024 x 768, which was about the maximum at the time that software was written. As a result, when you maximize the window, Windows knows how to make it full the screen, but the PC5250 client software apparently does not understand those larger screen dimensions.

You can (at least temporarily) have the user change their screen resolution -- right-click on the desktop and select "Properties" or "Personalize" and then under the "Display Properties" Settings tab, change the screen size to closer to 1024 x 768. That should "resolve" this particular issue.

I am not sure why no one has opened a PMR to get IBM to fix this yet, after all these years?

HTH,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 6/29/2015 4:58 PM, James Rich wrote:

I have a customer that reports that sometimes when they maximize the PC5250 window the font doesn't grow large enough so that the text doesn't completely fill the full size window. So while the window itself is maximized, there is a one or two inch "border" between the window edge and where the window content is. Has anyone else experienced this and has a solution?

James Rich