OpenEuphoria

Re: Questions about IDE and perhaps Win32Lib

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jun 24, 2003
• 434 views

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:52:16 +1200, Ray Tomes <rtomes at ihug.co.nz>
wrote:

>My problem is that I am designing for a 1024x768 screen size but want to=
=20
>be able to have it work on any screen size and for everything to scale=20
>correctly. I don't mind calculating the correct font sizes etc myself.
>
>How do other people deal with this? I see some windows that when resized=
 a=20
>big gray area appears which is pretty useless.

I did a little of this in MEditor, mainly because it had been
developed on different monitor & font size settings. It took a fair
amount of fiddling, even though as you might imagine, a text editor
has only a few pop-up windows and most are relatively trivial.

As with performance optimisation, it is not a bad idea to get the
whole thing working first, on your basic settings.

Maybe later in the project, spend a week developing in each of the
other resolutions you need to support.

Some code for font size detection, if you don't know:

integer lf		-- use large fonts
object hdc, iDPI
	lf =3D 0
	hdc =3D getDC(Screen)
	iDPI =3D w32Func( xGetDeviceCaps, {hdc, LOGPIXELSX} )
	releaseDC(hdc)
--DEV should just be >96?
	if iDPI =3D 120 then
		lf=3D1
	end if

Yes, that little reminder has been in the code now for about 18
months The windows eventually ended up something like:

constant
	COLOUROPTIONS =3D create( Window, "Colour Options", MAIN, 120, 70,
450+lf*50, 400+lf*100,WStyle),
	COLOURGROUP =3D create( Group, "Colour", COLOUROPTIONS, 5, 5,
255+lf*25, 170, 0 ),
	EUPHORIAWORDS =3D create( List, "Elements", COLOURGROUP, 10,
15+lf*5, 85+lf*25, 150, 0 ),
	FONTGROUP =3D create( Group, "Fontsize", COLOUROPTIONS, 270+lf*25,
5, 65+lf*6, 95, 0 ),

etc..

Messy, is it not? And not IDE friendly. Well, anyway, that's what I
did. Let me know if you have any better ideas.

Pete