[Gambas-user] Strange way of working about form dimensions

[rudy]

Hi,

I'm having problem with form dimension when running gambas program on 
different computer. I looked in the mail list and found the old discussion 
thread below. I have exactly same problem. Is there a solution to this 
problem ?

 I made an 800 x 600 form in my notebook (screen res 1024 x 768) and when I 
run the program on a PC (same res 1024 x 768) the form dimension changed to 
732 x 5xx (not remember exactly the form height). I tried to run the program 
on another (third) PC, the problem still happens.

I run gambas 1.9.33 on Suse 10.0.

Many thanks ....

Rudy


On Friday 26 May 2006 15:12, Jose J. Rodriguez wrote:
> On 5/18/06, Leonardo Miliani <leonardo at ...1237...> wrote:
> > On the notebook, I created a form that is 384x257 pixel(X,Y) in
> > dimensions but when I open the source code on the desktop PC I find that
> > the dimensions are changed in (X, Y). I tried to compile the source but
> > when I run the executable on the desktop I find again the altered
> > dimensions of the form.
> >
> > When I opened the .form files I looked at the first lines and they
> > appear as:
> >
> > "
> > { frmStart Form
> >    MoveScaled(50.6667,28.6667,42.6667,28.5556)
> >    'Move(456,258,384,257)
> > ....
> > "
> >
> > The real dimensions are in the quoted line. Maybe is this the problem?
> > Gambas does scale the dimensions of the forms looking at the desktop
> > ratios (the notebook has a 1280x800 display, the desktop has a 1280x1024
> > one).
>
> The desktop resolution isn't the only problem. I'm practically going
> mad here trying to make an app that works in at least the 3 main
> resolutions (640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768). First I tried fitting the
> window to the desktop, but that caused untold resizing problems,
> specially with fonts and buttons. Then i decided to work with a fixed
> 640x480 size window (size set in startup code, to avoid the same
> problem as Leonardo), centered in the display at larger resolutions.
> When the resolution is 640x480, I remove the window borders in code.
> This seemed to be working more or less, though I did have to implement
> scrollbars in the TexLlabels, as the font doesn't fit at the 2 lower
> resolutions. Now I just found out that if I use an external monitor
> instead of the notebook's LCD (both set at the same resolution, mind
> you), fonts and buttons look much larger in the monitor and now a lot
> of stuff doesn't fit in the window anymore! I'm guessing it's
> something to do with the dpi setting that probably differs between LCD
> and monitor, but I don't understand why, as both are set to 1024x768
> and even the horizontal size is very similar.
>
> Regards,
> Joe1962
>
>
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