resize screens with different resolutions

[Harry Brummelaar]

When I run my project at a resolution of 1024 X 768 it looks fine. The dialogscreen is in the center of the background main screen. When I go to other resolutions, however, i.e. 800 0r 640 Screenwidth, the dialogs and the background are overlapping each other. This doesn't look nice. I tried to use your in-build variable %ScreenWidth% to make conditional screens, but I could only change the font size and since the font size was already 8, it wouldn't react when I set it to a value lesser than 8.
I can't imagine that this is something that is not possible with Setup Factory. So what am I doing wrong? How can I make the screen dialog shrink when the user is using lower resolutions, so that the dialog screen fits nicely within its background(Main) screen?

Harry Brummelaar

[Mark]

Re: resize screens with different resolutions

Hi,
I am sorry to inform you but there is no way to shrink a dialog in Setup Factory 5.0. One thing you could do is if the user's screen width was lower then a certain size, you could bring up an initial dialog, that warns them that their screen size is not ideal for viewing the setup. That way the user would at least know that they were missing something.
Perhaps this option will be added in later releases of Setup Factory.

mark.

[Harry Brummelaar]

Re: resize screens with different resolutions

Originally posted by Mark:
mark.

Hi Mark
I really hope Indigo Rose will include this feature really soon, because you'll admit It is a bit clumpsy to inform my user that his screen looks ugly because of the limitations of a program I just bought, while our own program automatically finds out what resolution a user is on, whether he uses small or large fonts and then automatically adjusts everything in the program, every screen and every character, without asking the user to adjust to our program, which we just hate in other programs.
The only thing I can think of for now is to make the mainscreen (the background) completely empty except for a gradient or maybe a black background color or so , so at least there will be no ugly and confusing overlapping. I hope I can do that. Thanks for the answer though, at least I can quit searching how to do it. I couldn't help being disappointed (I realise it shows in my answer). I paid a lot for this program and didn't expect this, hope you can take it.
Greetings Harry Brummelaar.