A daft question about screen resolutions - Xtreme Visual Basic Talk

07-16-2002, 04:56 AM

ROBSON_SP

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A daft question about screen resolutions

Hi

My application an SDI application that is used to analyse large quantities of data (by eye). To enable even larger quantities of data to be analysed I'm running the app on a resolution of 1920x1200. All is well except that my toolbars and menus appear very small to the user. Is there a way of avoiding this for toolbars and menus perhaps using the API? Is there anything that will allow me to magnify the toolbar on a mouse event for example?

Cheers

Simon

07-16-2002, 05:06 AM

AndreRyan

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Not as far as I know but you could make up a custom Menu system(Uses Image and Pciture Boxes as Menu Items which can have Visible turned on or off)

Actually there is some APIs which come to mind but they would be FAR to complicated to insert into an app like this

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07-16-2002, 05:47 AM

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The APIs to which AndreRyan refers are collectively called owner drawn menus. Effectively you take over the responsibility for drawing the menus from the VB runtimes.

You can find an article on this topic at EliteVB

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