Posted by Grant Foraker on January 14, 2005 at 07:15:12:
In Reply to: Re: List View problem posted by Brian Levantine on January 12, 2005 at 18:26:30:
When I first started, using some of Jim's examples, I was getting blank screens, crashes, etc. So, I thought that I could isolate the problems by splitting the program into two pieces. The main program would gather the user's specifications and launch, via ENTER, an extended window that would do the List View. The extended window would have a CLOSE and PRINT button above the List View. Clicking either button closes the extended window. If PRINT was clicked then the old hard copy logic in the main program would be executed.
After, some learning curve, I ended up with some resonably good programs that I could deploy to customers. I learned that I could get the diplayed information in the List View to fit fairly well by playing with extended window width, the view width, and the font size. The displays looked good on my development laptop and office desktop.
However, users don't always run their PC's in the best video mode and some have older, limited video. If the user is in 800x600 mode and I create an extended window that is wider than 800, how can I scale down the extended window and the font size to keep the entire extended window on the screen and not chop off the right side.