RichardG wrote:
> One curiosity, though: what computers offer the 1536x864 resolution that
> apparently 5.48% of users are running? I can't recall even seeing that
> resolution in any spec listings.
A Windows thing?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/screen
Good data, Jim. Thanks.
And drives the point home well for Peter and the rest of us:
Even in the US market, where larger monitors are more common, 1366x768
is still the most popular and a good choice to optimize for as a minimum.
One curiosity, though: what computers offer the 1536x864 resolu
> RichardG wrote:
>
> With monitors, 1366x768 screens are by far the most common, the second
> leading size only a bit more than half as popular, and it's a long tail
> of single-digit market share from there:
>
> 1366x768: 29.87%
> 1920x1080: 16.69%
> 1440x900: 6.86%
> 1600x900: 5.81%
> 1
Hello Peter -
Scaling is tempting, but problematic.
Automating that with the stack's scaleFactor would be quick, but will
scale everything, even controls the user needs to interact with. If the
default size is good will they be usable at a smaller size? will text be
readable?
Hand-coding a
The following is only one opinion of many possible.
First, you should consider automatic scaling only with a very restricted amount
of cases. These are for example sort of games, where the "playing field" is
the better the larger it is, and the icons / images and their relative
positions or mo
Marty,
Thanks, that seems to be a good idea. I don’t have option menus, and I could
reset the window position after the scaling.
Peter
> On Oct 20, 2017, at 4:11 PM, Marty Knapp via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
> I was faced with the same issue and for me I ended up adding a "View" me
Hi Peter,
I was faced with the same issue and for me I ended up adding a "View"
menu to the menubar with user selectable sizes. Since scaleFactor was
not really meant to be used this way there are some drawbacks, the main
one being that the window will move on screen. It will not grow/shrink
f
This is probably too simple an answer, but for database applications, resizing
of windows is not a feature they allow, and there is almost always a "minimum
monitor size" requirement so that the form fits inside any window the system
might draw.
Windows has a feature to increase the monitor sc
