INFO: Maximum Window Sizes for Windows CE Devices

• Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0, version 1.0
• Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 5.0, version 1.0

SUMMARY

This article gives the maximum window sizes your forms can be on Handheld PC, Handheld PC Pro, and Palm-size PC devices. The article also shows how to create a simple project that displays the maximum screen size.

MORE INFORMATION

The following are the maximum window sizes you can display in a Windows CE device.

Handheld PC Device

	Height	Width
Twips	3600	9600
Pixels	213	472

Handheld PC Pro Device

	Height	Width
Twips	7200	9600
Pixels	453	632

Palm-size PC Device

	Height	Width
Twips	4800	3600
Pixels	293	232

Notes::

• There are 1440 Twips per inch.
• H/PC Pro and Palm-size devices are not applicable to the Windows CE Toolkit for VB 5.0.
• These values are general and may not apply to every device within a category.


To verify these measurements you can create a project that displays the height and width properties of the screen object. The following section shows you how to create a project to display the maximum window size.

Steps to Create the Sample Project

1. Start a new Windows CE HPC, HPC Pro, or PsPC project in Visual Basic. Use the emulation mode for the project. Form1 is created by default.



2. Add a CommandButton to Form1.



3. Copy the following code to the Form1 code window:




Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
   Command1.Caption = "Maximum Window Size"
End Sub

Private Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim strSize As String
   strSize = "Maximum Height: " & Screen.Height & " Twips"
   strSize = strSize & vbCrLf
   strSize = strSize & "Maximum Width: " & Screen.Width & " Twips"
   MsgBox strSize
End Sub 

4. Press the F5 key to start the project. Click the Maximum Window Size button to display the maximum window size information.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbToolkit kbVBp600 kbWinCE kbGrpVB
Version : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo