Resizing layouts for smaller monitors

[Jarvis]

Somewhere in the distant part of my brain I recollect a filemaker feature that automatically re-sized layouts to fit screen size of whatever monitor the application was being displayed on.

Is this just a movie in my own head or does this option really exist?

I do most of my work at home on a 24 inch Imac but the screen I have at my shop is only 20 inches. Is there a way to truncate the screen display when using smaller monitors to eliminate all the scrolling?

[bcooney]

It's more a "movie in your head" than a true feature. However, FM9 introduced object anchors, which allow objects to resize if given increased window size.

See "Setting auto-resize options for layout objects" in FM help.

[comment]

Perhaps you mean the Adjust Window [Resize to Fit] script step. However, this resizes the window, not the layout - which can be designed to adjust, as Barbara noted.

[Jarvis]

Wow.

I was hoping for a magic bean that just made everything shrink or expand proportionally. This Setting Auto Re-size options, however, looks much more interesting.

There's a lot of data to digest on this one.

Thanks for pointing it to me.

Jarvis