Hi Folks,
I should know the answer to this but I don't - I have installed an
application on a laptop and discovered that the panel view has become
confused. Many of the displayed items are ActiveX objects and they have
not scaled properly to the new display resulting in chopped items and
misalignments. Changing the display's pixel settings does not help -
the displayed panel gets larger but the problems enlarge also. I
considered increasing the displayed pixel parameters in the hope that
the panel view would become so small nobody would notice the glitches
but somehow this doesn't seem to be the right approach.
The operating system is XP and the ActiveX objects come from Microsoft
(list view) GlobalMajic (odometer).
Any thoughts?
Barrie
whoi
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I should know the answer to this but I don't - I have installed an
application on a laptop and discovered that the panel view has become
confused. Many of the displayed items are ActiveX objects and they have
not scaled properly to the new display resulting in chopped items and
misalignments. Changing the display's pixel settings does not help -
the displayed panel gets larger but the problems enlarge also. I
considered increasing the displayed pixel parameters in the hope that
the panel view would become so small nobody would notice the glitches
but somehow this doesn't seem to be the right approach.
The operating system is XP and the ActiveX objects come from Microsoft
(list view) GlobalMajic (odometer).
Any thoughts?
Barrie
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> not scaled properly to the new display
Bummer! Well, the ultimate source of all scaling operations comes from the
display driver. Before you consider drastic measures, see if you can find
out anything about the driver that may be malfunctioning. Check the display
manufacturer's web site for updates, a knowledge base or support forum.
Usually the scaling mode of ActiveX UI objects is Twips, some goofy
measurement that's supposedly one twentieth of a point. Well, anybody in
typography knows that a point is no help in the real world as there are
72.27... points to an inch. The farther you get from any origin the more a
Twip differs from any "rational" measurement
The "point" is that it might be a long shot, but if your controls have a
property called ScalingMode you might be able to change it to something
other than Twips, save the original program again and reinstall it on the
target.
There are also properties called TwipsPerPixelX and TwipsPerPixelY that are
members of VBA.Screen that I've found helpful in adjusting control size to
different display resolutions.
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