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Old 11-17-2007, 01:23 PM
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From your phpforum thread:


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Also, the actual window used to display the lists is only about 2/3 rds of the available screen real estate, could it maybe take up a little bit more?


And this comes from the necessity of bening compatible with the landscape mode.

Two possibilities:

Try to develop a separated landscape version with larger fields (this can be done but the I must find a way not to make the maintenance more complex


Find a way to manage different layouts for Portrait and Landscape modes. This is alos quite tricky with Basic4PPC as much as I understand it...
It is not so dificult to manage the diferent layouts....
There is a built in one of the libs ( i can't remember if it is formlib, or hardwarelib), that manages the screen rotation by firing an event...
within this event, you just have to reposition the controls according to the new form size...
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