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Re: Screen Resolution and Image Scaling

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Subject: Re: Screen Resolution and Image Scaling
From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:37:42 -0500
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At 6:04 PM +1000 8/27/04, Zac Cohan wrote:

I was having great fun with my application until developed on my 17" iMac, until I tried it on a 12" iBook. Of course, the iBooks maximum resolution was 1024x768 so it displayed my windows completely wrong. Many windows in my application display nearly full screen images, images that were insanely huge on a little 12" display My question is, is there any feature built into Realbasic to handle resolution changes? So elements like static texts and pictures specifically are scaled up or down automatically according to the resolution or size of the display?

No, there is no such thing on the Mac (I understand that Windows apps typically do this, though). 1024x768 is a pretty good-sized screen; in most cases I would suggest you design your app to work on an 800x600 screen, and then if somebody has more space than that, they'll simply be able to see or do more stuff at once.

Best,
- Joe

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