Re: The Scale problem

Roedy Green wrote:
I wrote about this problem many years ago as something I saw looming.
Now its has arrived. http://mindprod.com/jgloss/resolution.html

I have a new big high-res monitor and my Applets have shrunk to pin
pricks with unreadably small type. People used to tease me for my
outsized fonts and generous layouts. Now even they are far too small.
How do you go about writing apps that will be readable on a wide
variety of screens?

I know JGoodies has some tools for resolution independent layout.. But
I was wondering what could be done to existing apps that did not take
a major rewrite. I can live with icons not being scaled.

This needs to be builtin to Java so that when the user tells one
app/Applet his desired zoom, it will automatically apply universally.
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com


ummmmm as far as readibility goes, I figure you should still be able to read stuff. Why? because it IS high res. Most of us actually do want to fit more on our screens (at least I do) so,smaller yet still readable is a good thing...

I use to draw alot of circuit board layouts yonks ago when montiros were crappy. Onscreen the tracks and pads often looked like they touched, yet when printed and according to specs, obviously they were fine. I'm sure a high res monitor at the time would have showed smaller, yet more reailistic image representations ie... pads and tracks would have appeared not to touch (on screen) as they should have been.

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