VB and scaling

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From: Tommy Petersson
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:15

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We have an application written in Visual Basic for use on normal
VGA (640*480) monitors. More and more people have 800*600,
1024*768 or bigger screens, so it would be fine to dynamically
take that into account.

It's easy to get the actual resolution by a GDI call, but then -
what should one do? If I for instance have a window with a listbox,
vertical and horizontal scrollbars and on button - and want to have
the listbox as large as possible - how do I do? Scale? Or what?
Tips and tricks? Possible problems?

A little harder thing (?): An input form with combo boxes, text input and
lots of everything. If you want to fill up a large part of the screen,
(but not really have the window maximized) and have all proportions
correct (including the font) - how do you do? One global setting /
loop through the controls and change / one separate call for every
control that should be changed?

Thanks for any answers,

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 Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
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Subject: VB and scaling
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