Ok I have spent 73 minutes scanning the archives and reading some very interesting posts related to the runtime. However none of them addressed my very simple question... so here it is:
First of all (demonstrating what I already know) the forms can be set so that they cannot be resized (and they can be preset to a specific size). Very cool. However the runtime doesn't like it when you don't allow them to be resized... fine...
My question is: Can the RUNTIME be set to a specific sized window? and can it be set so that it can not be resized? Also in a competing basic language it is possible to "get" the screen size and calculate the appications position on the screen (a slick idea that seems underutilized in most apps). I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation regarding the runtime and this question... I was just wondering if something in the autoexec script could be jiggered to do this.
Why?? (for the eternally curious)... Well it's just a cosmetic issue. I was hoping (not demanding or requiring) that the end product would be unrecognizable from an application written in say VB or Delphi (or libertybasic!) etc... Having all that "grey" space isn't a problem, it's just not visually appealing... It lacks that clean professoinal - off the shelf - new car smell :-)
Any thoughts or comments are appreciated...
~joe
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
First of all (demonstrating what I already know) the forms can be set so that they cannot be resized (and they can be preset to a specific size). Very cool. However the runtime doesn't like it when you don't allow them to be resized... fine...
My question is: Can the RUNTIME be set to a specific sized window? and can it be set so that it can not be resized? Also in a competing basic language it is possible to "get" the screen size and calculate the appications position on the screen (a slick idea that seems underutilized in most apps). I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation regarding the runtime and this question... I was just wondering if something in the autoexec script could be jiggered to do this.
Why?? (for the eternally curious)... Well it's just a cosmetic issue. I was hoping (not demanding or requiring) that the end product would be unrecognizable from an application written in say VB or Delphi (or libertybasic!) etc... Having all that "grey" space isn't a problem, it's just not visually appealing... It lacks that clean professoinal - off the shelf - new car smell :-)
Any thoughts or comments are appreciated...
~joe
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
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