Front End - Form Size

**kiwiuser** · 04-14-2007, 04:19 PM

Hi there,

I am looing to start attacking developmenet of my new front end - however, I do not my LCD yet and are unsure of how big to make the form in Delphi (to suit my LCD).

I will be using [LEFT]an 8" LCD.

How do most people set up there base form? I obviously want it to take up the whole 8".

Thanks for your help.

**Enforcer** · 04-14-2007, 04:54 PM

allow the form to get it's size from an ini/xml file at runtime as part of the skinning

**kiwiuser** · 04-14-2007, 04:58 PM

ok, but how big are they normally?

Cheers.

**Enforcer** · 04-14-2007, 05:16 PM

OK, most people have 7" screens.

And they will either set the resolution at 800x600 or 848x480

**SFiorito** · 04-14-2007, 06:34 PM

or just set the form to start up maximized so you don't worry about resolution

**kiwiuser** · 04-14-2007, 07:00 PM

I was more worried about how much screen real estate i had to play with more than anything else.

**DeltaFX** · 04-18-2007, 10:35 AM

Most common res are 800*600 and 800*480.

Don't forget to :
- ask zindoz to hide the taskbar
- Set your form(s) with no border

Try to make your front-end selfcontained, not depending on a precise version of wmp ( real coders use bass.dll

), or a certain OS, or a certain version of the MDAC, or whatelse. If that's not possible, allow the user to deactivate the function

There are navigation programs that runs perfectly fine on a win98se 450Mhz K6-2
Remember that win98/Me are fully capable 32bits OSes too, and much more suited for small puters than vista), try to be retrocompatible.

From an ergonomic point of view, make sure a transistion between to screens takes less than 10ms, avoid any form of user confirmation for an action while driving, avoid error messages (create logs instead)

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