Physical Screen Size

[Tim Ponn]

Mark,

I understand why folks set their screen res the way they do...I know  
someone who always sets it at the highest possible...never mind that  
it's nearly impossible to see the icons on their desktop without  
magnification!  ;=)

Here's my application and why it's important to me...

We designed and built an extremely accurate 3 axis cnc micro-driller  
about 7 years ago which is controlled by a HyperCard stack.  We use  
it in production to drill holes as small as .010" dia. through a  
variety of plastics with a guaranteed accuracy of .00025".  The "work  
area" is small, just 4" square...but it has served our needs  
perfectly.  In my stack, I represent the work area on screen in  
exactly the same size...WYSIWYG-in-extreme, if you will.  When the  
file is loaded, the pattern is displayed.  As each hole is drilled,  
the appropriate circle is "filled in" on the screen.
I've used Rev for about 5 years now, and am converting this stack  
into a rev app.  If we were only using it in house, no biggie, I  
would just tweak the display like I did last time.  But now we're  
thinking of building and selling these machines (with perhaps a 12"  
square work area and higher RPM drill head to allow for smaller  
drills) to others.

Now...it just occurred to me as I was writing this...a good work  
around may be to tweak it on my monitor until it's the same scale,  
then use my set resolution to recalculate and change size based on  
the resolution of the user.  In fact, I'm certain that will work.

Thanks for your poking, you got me to think!


Best Regards,

Timothy R. Ponn
ALPTEX, Inc.


On Jan 19, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Normally, people set the screen resolution to a higher number  
> because they want more to fit on their screen. They would be  
> surprised to see that your application doesn't show more on screen  
> despite a higher resolution, if you manage to do this.
>
> I don't think that the actual screen size is of any importance.  
> Sometimes, it could be useful to adjust an application to the  
> screen resolution, e.g. if you are making a full-screen interface.  
> The physical screen size has nothing to do with this.
>
> So, why would you want to do this?
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
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