Re: Form cut off on right and bottom sides

From: Joe \ (joe_at_bftsi0.UUCP)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:37:30 -0800

"Michael Vogt" <mraviator@yahoo.com> wrote in message <news:8f8c4938.0402201247.5275a918@posting.google.com>...

> I have a VB6 (SP5) app running on several PCs just fine. On two PCs,
> however, the right hand side and the bottom sides are cut off. The
> buttons, fonts, image boxes, etc. are not scaled down, just the right
> and bottom borders are trimmed off.
>
> I looked into Normal vs. Large Font setting, screen resolution, and
> other PC settings, no luck.
>
> This has appeared on both Win 2000 and XP systems. In the code I size
> my form using the following code to achieve a 600x600 form:
>
> Width = Screen.TwipsPerPixelX * 600
> Height = Screen.TwipsPerPixelY * 600
>
> Any suggestions why on 99.9% of computers this work, but on the
> occasional one it does not?

This will fail when the window border, title bar, and/or menu bar
might be larger than normal, causing the ScaleWidth or ScaleHeight
to be smaller than you expect. The solution is to adjust your
controls, etc., in the Form_Resize event. 

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