Working with screen resolutions

[agraham]

It looks like your Axim thinks that the compiled exes are HI_RES_AWARE. - note the large button text. You haven't used a hack to get normal QVGA programs to run non-pixel doubled have you?

Have you seen this thread. It doesn't help your immediate problem but it might be of interest once you have.

http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/code-samples-tips/786-true-vga-possible-basic4ppc.html

[Nycran]

Nope, I didn't use any hacks. I just compiled normally, used CabWiz to pack the exe and SQLite dll's into an installer and then installed it on the device. Are there any config files perhaps that I need to include in the Cab? Are there any files I should look for in my application direction? Not sure how to solve this.

[Erel]

I don't see this behavior here.
Do other users with VGA devices see this misaligned screen?

[Nycran]

Hi Erel, don't mean to be a pain here, but just wondering if you could investigate this further, as in order to support the Axim X51v (and probably other VGA PDAs), I'm going to need to make two versions, which I'd prefer not to have to do.

I'm developing on the desktop, so having the problem go away when I compile it on the device itself isn't going to help me much.

Do you have any suggestions for what I can try to resolve this? Does anyone else here actually have an X51v?

[Erel]

I haven't tested it with an Axim X51v but other VGA devices do show the screen as 240x320 (double pixels).
@RandomCoder, do you have this problem with your Axim X51v?

[Nycran]

Thanks Erel. If it comes down to it, I'll send you my Axim for testing and some money so you can send it back again.

[Erel]

Lets try a simple workaround:

Sub Globals
    'Declare the global variables here.
    Dim controls(0)
End Sub

Sub App_Start
    Form1.Show
    If Form1.Width > 400 Then
        controls() = GetControls("Form1")
        For i = 0 To ArrayLen(controls())-1
            name = controls(i)
            Control(name).Top = 2 * Control(name).Top
            Control(name).Left = 2 * Control(name).Left
            Control(name).Width = 2 * Control(name).Width
            Control(name).Height = 2 * Control(name).Height
            Control(name).FontSize = 2 * Control(name).FontSize
        Next
    End If
End Sub

[RandomCoder]

Originally Posted by Erel

I haven't tested it with an Axim X51v but other VGA devices do show the screen as 240x320 (double pixels).
@RandomCoder, do you have this problem with your Axim X51v?

I've created a Form with a Button and Listbox as shown in Nycran's screenshot then transferred it using Window Explorer and it's displayed exactly as it was on the Desktop IDE.

I've had a look at the system settings of my Axim X51v and nothing seems to affect the size of the controls on the Form.
On the device I have WM5 and on my desktop I have XP Media Center.

The only problem I've ever experienced is that font size is displayed slightly larger on the desktop than on the device, but I'm pretty sure this is covered elsewhere in the forum and is to do with the Device fonts being different to the Desktop.

Regards,
RandomCoder

[Erel]

Thank you for your help RandomCoder.

[RandomCoder]

The only suggestion I can offer is that Nycran hard resets his device and then installs B4PPC and .Net Framework to see if the problem still exists.
Hopefully that should work. He will then need to re-install all his other app's (one at a time obviously) and see if the problem returns.

It's a pain, but reverting the device back to factory default should work

Rregards,
RandomCoder