Hello,

As a test i want to change the users screen resolution to 1024x768 when they load my webpage. I wanna find out if that ain't to frustrating for the user, cause if it's not that would save me a lot of time with not making a lot of pages in different resolutions.

I found the code how to do this from within .Net, but i'm using ASP. The code i found uses API functions but i don't know if it's possible to access these from within ASP too. And even if it's possible i don't have a clue how to do this. The link where i found the .Net code: http://www.omniscium.com/index.asp?p...reenResolution Is this possible?

Has anybody else tried something like this before or do u think this isn't gonna work at all?

Greetz,

Harold

Let's hope this is NEVER going to be possible from within a web page.
What's next? Change my desktop background to your company logo? Change the colors and theme? Upgrade my Video Card drivers?

Yes, this would be frustrating. Not only that, you could cause problems as well. What about someone does a 1600x1200 resolution change on a card that supports up to 1024x768?? Ooops.

Bottom line: you can't do this and I am glad you can't. The only thing you could is change the browser window to a more reasonable size. You can use JavaScript to resize the current window or to influence the size of new windows you open by code.

However, IMO, what you really should do is design websites that run on multiple screens without problems. Spend some time looking at CSS, DHTML, Liquid Tables (an HTML technique to make tables auto stretch) so your pages look good, no matter the computer your end-user is using.

Groeten,

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

well well already one frustrated user . I wanted to do it this way only inside the company where i know al the systems can handle this resolution. But almost all users work on a 800x600 resolution (which sucks). and yes i know u are gonna say now that i should develop it mainly for 800x600 but that's not the point yet

i know about stretching tables and so on, but u would still have to edit a handfull of static pages and because i'm lazy (and don't like 'creating' the same page twice) i was looking for another solution.

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don't u have a job? cause u are answering almost all my questions very very soon (which i greatly appreciate offcourse :D)
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I do have a job, but you know what they say: "If you want something done fast, ask a busy guy to do it for you" ;)

There's 24 hours in a day; I spend about half an hour max answering questions on these forums. That leaves roughly another 18 hours for a job, although I think 8 to 9 hours is more than enough.

Even inside a company Intranet, you can't and shouldn't mess with screen resolution from ASP pages. You'll get frustrated users and you'll break things (literally). Talk to your boss and tell him to set the company standard to 1024x768 or higher....

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

lol the boss agrees with me (about the screenresolution that is) but those users keep complaining about how little everything gets at that resolution. But soon we are gonna migrate to a new OS and guess who's going to create the image (including a nice screenresolution )

Users can be very frustrating too...sighhhh...

but thanks again for helping!

Harold