Re: Screen Resolution

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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.