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Window size and positioning - how to define?

deko
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#1: Nov 13 '05
When a user opens my Access database application, I would like the
application window to be a certain size (but not maximized). Currently,
when my app is first opened, the application window defaults to whatever
size the user sized it to last time he used Access. This results in my
app's interface not looking right. Of course the user can resize the
window, but many users don't know how or don't have the inclination to
adjust it. This results in the interface getting blamed for being
"out-of-center" or requiring scroll bars, etc.

If I want to control the window size and position of the Access application
window when my app opens, do I need to use the Windows API? I will research
this and find out how to do it, but if someone can point me in the right
direction or offer some code samples, that would be a big help.

Thanks.


Wayne Morgan
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#2: Nov 13 '05

re: Window size and positioning - how to define?


Here is an API function that will let you maximize, minimize, or restore the
Access window. You'll need to restore it before you size it.

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0019.htm

Next, here is information on sizing a window.

http://vb.mvps.org/hardcore/html/windowpositionsize.htm
http://vb.mvps.org/articles/fe199509.pdf -- item #5

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Wayne Morgan
MS Access MVP


"deko" <deko@deko.com> wrote in message
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> When a user opens my Access database application, I would like the
> application window to be a certain size (but not maximized). Currently,
> when my app is first opened, the application window defaults to whatever
> size the user sized it to last time he used Access. This results in my
> app's interface not looking right. Of course the user can resize the
> window, but many users don't know how or don't have the inclination to
> adjust it. This results in the interface getting blamed for being
> "out-of-center" or requiring scroll bars, etc.
>
> If I want to control the window size and position of the Access
> application
> window when my app opens, do I need to use the Windows API? I will
> research
> this and find out how to do it, but if someone can point me in the right
> direction or offer some code samples, that would be a big help.
>
> Thanks.
>
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