Handling different Dialog sizes on different Workstations |
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(From Newsletter #46, Sept 10, 2018)
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If you have set up custom Dialog Definitions with new or moved controls (fields), you may find that on other networked workstations things don't appear the same, possibly causing overlapping or missing fields. This is due to the Windows display settings being different (e.g. using Large fonts instead of normal fonts, etc), which will automatically change the standard dialog sizes and positions, but not the customized controls.
Obviously the easy way to fix it is to make sure you're using the same Windows display settings on each computer. But just in case that's not practical for your situation, then the alternative is to modify the Dialog Definition to accommodate the different sizes.
What you would have to do is edit the custom Dialog definition, make a Copy of EACH custom control element that's causing the position problem, and change the Top/Left positions in one copy to account for the different font size, and then include a check for the Workstation in each one. Note that this also assumes that the workstation ID's don't change on each computer (which of course they shouldn't under normal operations).
For instance, if the problem Workstation is #2, then one copy (with the modified positions) would have this in the Condition expression:
Workstation() = 2
...and the other control (original positions) would have:
Workstation() != 2
If there is already something in the Condition, though, you need to "AND" that with any existing expressions in the condition).... e.g.
(existing expression) AND Workstation() = 2
Be sure to wrap the existing expression in parenthesis as shown.