zooming

[tomp]

My solution was designed when a good monitor had a 1024x768 display with a zoom level of 100%.

 

Newer monitors have increased resolution, e.g., 1600x900. The result is that the solution occupies a smaller proportion of the display area and the text appears very small. My users want to 'maximize'. Of course, maximizing just fills the rest of the screen with the background color for the layout and doesn't increase fonts etc. The only way (I think) to do what they want is to 'zoom'. However the next available zoom level is 150%. There is no way to scale up the window size on a 1600x900 screen (I don't think) so that the display will show at 150% without scroll bars. Redesigning the layouts is not an option.

 

Is there another solution to 'scale up' the old 1024x768 designed layout so that it fills the screen other than changing the screen resolution from, say 1600x900, to 1024x768? That just results in a fuzzy display.

 

If not, is there any hope that FM will provide either a 'scalable' zoom or some additional increments, such as 125%, in the zoom level options?

 

 

(BTW, I am able to scale to a zoom of 150% on a 15" MacBook Pro - barely - without scroll bars, but Windows machines don't seem to provide sufficient resolution even for 17" and larger screens).

 

 

[David Jondreau]

Anchoring and / or conditional formatting.

 

Anchoring will allow objects to stretch according to the width and height of the window.

 

Conditional formatting allows you to increase the actual font size depending on resolution.

[tomp]

In FMA 12 I see the anchoring/autosizing feature in the 'position' tab of the inspector, but can't see that it has any effect on anything. What do I do to make an object 'autosize' when an object is anchored left and top? I've tried dragging the handles on the window. Nothing