Enlightening and interesting, and of course absolutely right.

But how to use opal to resize the Paradox outer shell (the Paradox windows
application) to fit the form precisely?

With Paradox 11 I have problems with the form zoom property because
text-editing gets a weird lag with the cursor(Bertil has described and
confirmed this phenomena) So with this problem in mind there is almost a
*must* to use a form scale of 100%. But I should very much like to know how
to resize the Paradox application to fit the form, so the users (with
different screen resolutions) don't have to do this manually. Any tip?

Bjorn


"Liz McGuire" <liz (AT) paradoxcommunity (DOT) com> wrote

Make sure your forms are all the same size, or pick the largest form.
Temporarily put code on the form to get the app size. Run the form,
position form and app as desired. Trigger the code, record the size of
the app, put code in init to size the app.

That's what I do. I also set the position of the app window (you can
also read size and position on exit, store them for the user, and
restore them on start-up - it's not hard (assuming your form has a
startup script or form).

Liz


Bjorn Sagbakken wrote:

See the sizing demo on our paradox resources page (link in my
signature). Generally I design all my forms to maximize inside the size
I define my ap window and use that use that space unless I am popping up
a dialog (which I then have at an explicit sub size)

Denn Santoro
President
Resource Development Associates
http://www.RDAWorldWide.Com
Offices in the United States and Germany
Providing solutions to health care, business, governments and
non-profits since 1982

Thanks a lot Liz,

In the back of my head I was discussing with myself something like that.
With your pin-pointed information I tested this with success. Already I have
established a user-profile table for various settings, like printers other
stuff. Now I think I will add a registration for preferred
screen-resolution.

But is there a way to detect the user's desktop resolution so this can be
done automatically?

Bjorn

"Liz McGuire" <liz (AT) paradoxcommunity (DOT) com> wrote

Hi Paul,

I guess some things are the same no matter where you are. Most of the
medical software in the USA is just as you've described. Popups
everywhere. So many popup's that it's easy to get lost in the software.
While the software is technically sound, the interfaces are very
confusing and difficult to learn.

I think part of the problem is that for the most part the people who
design the software don't actually use it. And they wonder why so few
doctors use electronic medical records in the USA.

Regards,
RoyF

OzPaul wrote:

Thanks,

I have downloaded your demo, and will study this along with the tip I got
from Liz.

Bjorn

"Dennis Santoro" <RDAPres (AT) NoRDASpamWorldWide (DOT) com> wrote

IMO, the resolution is less important than storing the app size and
position when the user closed it. This way you can always open the app
in the position and size the user prefers.

That said, look at sysInfo() in ObjectPAL help - it has resolution
information. (I only use this to determine whether or not to maximize
Paradox. If the resolution is 800x600 or less, I maximize; otherwise, I
explicitly size and position it to take up a portion of the screen.)

FWIW,

Liz


Bjorn Sagbakken wrote:

Thanks again.

Bjorn
"Liz McGuire" <liz (AT) paradoxcommunity (DOT) com> wrote