Renders too small on Laptops

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When I create a good UI size on desktop computer , it looks
smller than I would have created it on most laptops.
How do the pro's deal with this.

Posted 15-Jan-11 23:00pm

o1010wanabe

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Espen Harlinn 16-Jan-11 6:41am

Nice to be able to help, a vote and perhaps marking the question as answered, is a welcome response too :)

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Solution 1

Probably because it's smaller due to the screen size ;)
You can't please everybody.
You could try to resize/reposition your forms and controls, but not all will do so gracefully.

Most users will adjust the resolution to a setting they're comfortable with.
So, find out what resolution and screen size the majority of your users have, and cater for that.

Cheers

Posted 15-Jan-11 23:14pm

Estys

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Jan-11 14:23pm

If makes sense, my 5.
Keep in mind: this is WPF (you mentioned forms, which is irrelevant), which can automatically scale everything. However, when the user working with a small screen should know how big is the sacrifice.

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-15T23:20:00

Solution 2

Since I've got no idea about what you UI looks like, I can only advice you to organize you UI in a manner that supports various screen sizes – but you have probably reached that conclusion yourself.

You can use something like:
AvalonDock on Codeplex/[^] to achieve this quite easily.

Another approach is to scale contents using something similar to this approach:
UI Scaling (UI Zooming) with WPF[^]

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Espen Harlinn

Posted 15-Jan-11 23:20pm

Espen Harlinn

Updated 15-Jan-11 23:24pm

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o1010wanabe 16-Jan-11 6:36am

Thanks Mr. Harlin . The UI Scaling with WPF looks very cool.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Jan-11 14:19pm

Best answer so far, 5+

Espen Harlinn 16-Jan-11 15:22pm

Thanks SAKryukov!