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Subject:Re: Automatically resize forms and all their controls based on
Date:26 May 2020 23:52:10 -0400
From:"Kevin Zawicki" <numberjack@wi.rr.com>
Newsgroups:pnews.paradox-development

to add 

>
Its not just the screen resolution you have to worry about, you may also
need to consider the DPI as well and then apply a scaling factor.
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and that the user may change on the fly...


Also, ZOOM will magnify, but what some users mean is "more real estate".

If a tableframe has x many rows and they get a nigger monitor / resolution,
etc, they may want more than x rows. 

So you have to consider magnification is not more space.






modridirkac <jure.zorko@gmail.com> wrote:
>I use "built in" method.
>It works on most computers. On some it does not work as I would like it
to.
>
>So I use a global variable, which can be set on app level.
>
>
>in "var" of form:
>	doZoom logical
>
>in "init" method:
>	...
>	doZoom = true/false - read from INI or something
>	...
>	doDefault
>	...
>
>	
>in "setFocus" method of the form:
>	...
>	doDefault
>	if doZoom  then
>		menuAction(MenuPropertiesZoomBestFit)
>	else
>		menuAction(MenuPropertiesZoom100)
>	endIf
>	...
>
>
>Jure


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