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Report #:  6932   Status: Open
Add functionality to indicate screen resolutions when designing forms.
Project:   Build #:  7.1.1446.610
Version:    8.0 Submitted By:   Jeremy North
Report Type:  New Feature Request Date Reported:  1/14/2004 8:16:24 PM
Severity:    Commonly encountered problem Last Updated: 3/20/2012 2:24:39 AM
Platform:    All platforms Internal Tracking #:   193544
Resolution: None (Resolution Comments) Resolved in Build: : None
Duplicate of:  None
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Overall Rating: (2 Total Ratings)
5.00 out of 5
Total Votes: 23
Description
Add buttons to the alignment toolbar that map to various desktop resolutions.  These would most likely need to be user configurable.  Perhaps have defaults for 800x600, 1024x768.  Perhaps a combobox to list resolutions would be better and reduce the number of buttons on the toolbar.

When the user selects one of these buttons lines are drawn on the designing screen that indicates that resolution.  This could help make sure your designed forms look ok when ran under those resolutions.

This would mainly be useful for non-resizable forms although having the added ability to stretch the form to a selected resolution (similating maximizing) would be nice also.
Steps to Reproduce:
This is best described with the picture attachment included!

The ability to maximized to the selected resolution would also be a nice touch and having the restore, return back to the original state.
Workarounds
None
Attachment
vcldesigner_resolution2.zip
Comments

Leonel Togniolli at 1/15/2004 4:44:09 AM -
Just to clear up: you want just the lines to appear, or are you asking for the form to be changed as a result of selecting a resolution as well?

John Wester at 1/20/2004 10:28:28 AM -
ACIUS 4th Dimension used to display little hash marks on the Screen Design canvas showing the bottom right corner of the various resolutions of the monitors available for the Mac (9", 12") etc.

Jeremy North at 1/15/2004 9:25:04 PM -
Just the lines to appear.  Sort of like guidelines.  Perhaps even a ruler with pixels on it could be used.

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