How to zoom a form in vb6

hi
is there any way to zoom in a form, so that one can have enlarged view of the form.


regards
manpreet singh dhillon hoshiarpur

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

Try to call the Magnifier inbuilt to windows XP.

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

but windows magnifier opens on the top of screen. but i want to zoom the form in its original position, so that end user could not even guess that any magnifier is being used.

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

is there any way out

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

Dear Mr. Dhillon
Search in www.bigresource.com for Zoom Form in VB6 and get a lot of help.

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

hi smartchap
thanks for the reply
i could find nothing on the link suggested by you. can you please tell a particular page that may be helpful.

thanx

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

Have a look at this :
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...highlight=zoom

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

To get the required results you must use Left, Top, FontSize, ScaleHeight, ScaleWidth properties of all the controls in the form. Must save Form ScaleHeight, ScaleWidth and FontSize in a variable during loading the form so that they make a reference to new properties during resizing. For Zoom In & Out you may use two command buttons or some function keys or even MouseDown (say Left = Zoom In, Right = Zoom Out). For a picture in picture box always rescale its width & height properties to get zooming effect.
Hope it will help you. Otherwise I will post a code I have developed as soon as I locate it (in my old CDs).

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

hi smartchap
thanks for the reply.
my problam is not what you got.
actually my software was running on 15" monitor. but now the user has shifted to 17" LCD. as you know in older times 15" monitor usually worked on 800X600 resolution setting. and modren LCDs can work on 1200 X 780 .
on this setting all of the screens of software look smaller.
if i start increasing font size of all of the screens it will take at leaset two months.
now i have two ways out:
1. i will develop a zoomer to zoom in the form so that user could comfortably type and view information on the screen.
2. i will open that particular window in 800 X 600 resolution (irrespective of the original windows resolutions)
if you have any solution then please help
regards
manpreet singh dhillon hoshiarpur

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

Got your point. See the solution at this link:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ppear+controls

I think now you got the exact solution. If not ask again. If yes, thank the writer.

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

hi smartchap
i followed the link suggested by you.
it is fine
actually the code is not setting resultion of the screen covered by form, but is changing the form's and controls' width, height and font size as these will be visible in 800 X 600 resolution.
as the width of a control (eg command button) is set to according to the 800 X 600 setting it overlaps the other control beside it.

i want to change the resolution of only that area of screen where the target form will be shown.

regards
manpreet singh dhillon hoshiarpur

re: How to zoom a form in vb6

Please bear with me I will try to help u next week as this week I am a little bit busy.