Zooming in/out - variable %

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I have designed my solution for the 'typical' laptop display - to fit a 1024x768 resolution without need to scroll either vertically or horizontally.

This is great as a 'full screen' display for computers with 1024x768 maximum resolution.

Users with larger resolution screens want to 'maximize' the solution with an accompanying scaling up of the objects on the layout.

FM allows zooming only in fixed increments (150% 200% 300% etc) which helps only if the user has a larger screen - 20" or more - and zooming to 150% could be done. If the user's screen isn't big enough zooming to 150 requires scrolling to view all the objects on the screen.

What I've done - and it's not a very satisfying answer - is told my user to go into preferences/control panel and adjust their screen resolution to the closest setting they have greater than or equal to 1024x768. The display gets a little fuzzy on the bigger screens, but the application is 'maximized'.

A better solution would be a scriptable variable zoom feature in FM where the zoom value could be 'specified'. The script could resize the window as well as zooming to the custom level.

Does this exist somewhere and I just don't see it (I'm on FM11 advanced)? Is FM considering such an option for a future release?

Does anyone else have this issue and possibly a solution?

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A better solution would be a scriptable variable zoom

There is no variable zoom - hence no scriptable variable zoom either. Perhaps you should look into auto-resizing your layout objects:

http://www.filemaker.com/11help/html/edit_layout.10.9.html#1027936