screen view size in v 3.05

[jfreestern]

In helping a client with some computer problems, I needed to delete preferences for FM 3.05. Now the screen view of form page is smaller than previously. as i am not well versed in FM, I'm not sure how to get the full view back. According to the book there should be a selection under preferences for view, but when i open preferences, that schoice is no where to be found. I know that you can increase the view size from 100% to 150%, but 150% is too big and 100% does seem a bit small (it only fills about 3/4 of an imac screen). Any help is appreciated.

Jeff

[Vaughan]

It sounds like you are helping somebody transfer a system from an old machine onto an iMac, which has a higher resolution screen (800x600). The "screen" size of the FMP database is fixed by the design of the layout. The only way to make it bigger is to re-design it. There is no "automatic" resize function. We wish there was.

Versions of FMP before 3.0v6 are *not* Y2K compliant. Get the 3.0v6 patch from http://www.filemaker.com asap.

[jfreestern]

No, the program and database were already on their imac. There definitely seemed to be a slight reduction in the image size after I trashed FM's preferences, although now that I think of it I also had to zap the system's PRAM, so maybe the overall system resolution got changed. I'll have to check that. By the way, the most current version for Mac that I see is 3.05. You and someone on a different post keep mentioning 3.06. Am I looking in the wrong place??

Jeff

[LiveOak]

I'm not sure what resolutions the iMac defaults to after zapping the PRAM, but it is capable of 1024 x 768. If you were at 832 x 624 and defaulted to 1024 x 768, the screen would look small. I'd check the screen resolution setting. -bd