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Suggestions For Touch Screen Form Sizes [C#]

MikeY
3/3/2006 8:44:20 AM

dotnet windows forms designtime:

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for suggestions for touch screen form sizes. I'm trying to build
a hospitality touch screen application w/ Window forms. However I am getting
a bit flustered with choosing what size of the form I should have (base my
application on). I have been measuring various monitor sizes and they vastly
very. Some have big screens, some very small. Should I start my form small
so the application can expand according to the windows state size. Start
big and shrink to the windows state size. My application will have a fair
amount of custom buttons and in practice with anchoring, if they shrink/grow
too much, it will distorts the appearance of the application.

Any and all help, concerns, tips etc, etc is appreciated. Also, any and all
other concerns tips on doing this type of application is appreciated as
well.

MikeY

Re: Suggestions For Touch Screen Form Sizes [C#]

Mark Dykun
4/2/2006 10:57:43 AM

Hey Mike,

But why not create a rendering engine and allow for the customization of the
Layout at runtime. Less buttons on the smaller screen with hot buttons to
the least used functionsets. You could also change regions based on what the
user is doing such as rapid task switching. Menus can also be seperated onto
several panel areas to ensure that many layouts are possible. I would never
hardcode a layout for a Hospitality application. One of the benifits of a
rendering engine is you could effectively handle right and left handed views
depending on the server.

Just some thoughts,
Mark

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