Screen Size Advice

[Marian Petrides]

Try this as a quick and dirty solution (at least until you master the 
Geometry Manager--I haven't tried it yet).

What I do is use the following in my OpenStack handler:


  If the screenRect <> 0,0,800,600 then
     set the rect of this stack to 100,100,900,700
   else
     set the rect of this stack to the screenRect
   end if

The resultant stack is always 800 X 600 in size (didn't want to mess 
with the Geometry Manager) but on a 1024 X 768 system it just fills 
less of the screen and the fonts look smaller (and consequently 
crisper).  The first half of the condition simply avoids having the 
stack stuck exactly in the upper left corner of the screen (which looks 
unnatural to me) on systems with resolution greater than 800 X 600.

Try it in a demo stack of your own making and see if it will do the 
trick.

M



On Jul 22, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Tom Cole wrote:

> Thanks for the help, but I guess I'm getting confused with the screen 
> size info.
>
> All I really want is to decide on a smart size for my cards so I can 
> position my graphics and buttons and know that they will not overflow 
> anyone's screen.
>
> When I drag a screen around until its rect is 800/600, I have plenty 
> of room to work. (It's quite big!) So I guess my question is if I just 
> keep all my buttons and graphics within this size area, 600/800, will 
> it work for people and does it matter then what the stack's screenrect 
> is? I just want to know if I develop with cards whose rects are at 
> 600/800 if people will have enough room. I can't seem to change the 
> screenrect for the stack, whose default seems to be 1024/768.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Tom
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