How to Change Display Settings? ( A2k (9.0.4402) SR-1)

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I have developed a form on computer with display settings of 800 x 640.

I installed it on customer computer with display settings set to 640 x 480 and it doesn

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Never done this myself but find someone with a copy of Access 97 Developers Handbook or a later version if there is one (by Paul Litwin,Ken Getz and Mike Gilbert) or buy a copy its a very useful book.

It has a whole chapter on how to handle this thing, with the code on how to resize a form to fit your screen resolution at load time.

I avoid the problem by always designing for the lowest common denominator.

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I develop for SVGA(800×600), unless I specifically know the client has a higher resolution. I insist on minimum SVGA. Time to get rid of that 14″ monitor and get a larger one!

There are various solutions. I believe in the Compuserve forum libraries (follow link below), there is a product call shrinker/stretcher, which is supposed to handle this. But it will still be a problem regardless.

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