SIZE WINDOW, ZOOM WINDOW

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`SIZE WINDOW`, `ZOOM WINDOW`

These commands change the size of a window from maximum to minimum or any specified size in between. This is the old FoxPro 2.x way of changing window size. We recommend you use a form’s Height, Width and WindowState properties instead.

Usage

SIZE WINDOW WindowName TO nNewHeight, nNewWidth
                      | BY nRowIncrement, nColumnIncrement
ZOOM WINDOW WindowName
        MIN [ AUTO ] | MAX | NORM
        [ AT | FROM nTopRow, nLeftColumn
        [ SIZE nNewHeight, nNewWidth
          | TO nBottomRow, nRightColumn ] ]

The SIZE WINDOW command lets you resize any user-defined window or resizable FoxPro system window either to specified proportions or by specified increments. This command doesn’t provide any functionality you can’t get using ZOOM WINDOW NORM.

MIN minimizes the form. The AUTO keyword is only applicable to the DOS version of FoxPro 2.x, where it docks the form. MAX maximizes the form, within the limits of its parent window, or the Visual FoxPro application window. NORM is used for most of the rest of the keywords shown above, because it doesn’t make much sense to try to position a zoomed form—it takes up the whole window. Similarly, a minimized form parks itself on the bottom of the window, regardless of where you tell it to be placed.

Some form windows are restricted in size by the MaxHeight and MaxWidth properties, as well as their counterparts MinHeight and MinWidth. Typically, no error is generated, but the window fails to be resized if these bounds are exceeded. For this reason, we recommend using the WindowState property to manipulate the windows rather than using this antiquated command.

ZOOM WINDOW MIN and MAX fire the form's Resize event and Refresh method, but ZOOM WINDOW NORM does not. This is another reason, in your authors' opinion, to manipulate WindowState rather than use this command.

Example

ACTIVATE WINDOW CALENDAR  && Open the calendar/diary
ZOOM WINDOW CALENDAR ;
  NORM AT 3,3 ;
  SIZE 0,100  && Widen the diary