window sizes

[Colm Osiris-3]

Hallo Experts

I've been working on a database on my 20" iMac. I've made the window  
as large as it can be on the screen.

Sometimes, when I open it, it opens in a tiny window which I have to  
resize. The size of the window that opens is the same as a dialogue  
window that is sometimes opened from the main window. But this happens  
whether or not the dialogue window was open when the database was last  
closed.

Does anyone have any ideas why this may be happening, and what I can  
do about it?

It's all very well on my development machine, but when the clients get  
it, they won't want to be bothered with having to resize windows, and  
I wouldn't blame them.

Thanks.

Colm

Intel Core 2 Duo iMac
OS 10.5.4
FMPA 9.0v3
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[Paul Sandwijk]

Colm,

The size and location of the opening window is determined by the size and
location when you last closed the file.
It looks like that the dialogue window may have been the last one closed.

When a file is server-based, the last position before it was actually hosted
is important.

In my applications I always include a resize windows command in my opening
script.

Paul


On 25-09-2008 11:29 wrote Colm Osiris:

> Hallo Experts
>
> I've been working on a database on my 20" iMac. I've made the window
> as large as it can be on the screen.
>
> Sometimes, when I open it, it opens in a tiny window which I have to
> resize. The size of the window that opens is the same as a dialogue
> window that is sometimes opened from the main window. But this happens
> whether or not the dialogue window was open when the database was last
> closed.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas why this may be happening, and what I can
> do about it?
>
> It's all very well on my development machine, but when the clients get
> it, they won't want to be bothered with having to resize windows, and
> I wouldn't blame them.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Colm
>
> Intel Core 2 Duo iMac
> OS 10.5.4
> FMPA 9.0v3
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[Colm Osiris-3]

Hi Paul

Thank you very much for your speedy response. :-)

> The size and location of the opening window is determined by the  
> size and
> location when you last closed the file.
> It looks like that the dialogue window may have been the last one  
> closed.

Maybe it was open, but behind the main window, so I didn't see it.  
This is extremely possible during my vicarious testing.

> When a file is server-based, the last position before it was  
> actually hosted
> is important.

It isn't server-based yet, but it will be, so I will bear that in mind.

> In my applications I always include a resize windows command in my  
> opening
> script.

I will do this.

Colm
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