Problem with circles in running an application on a Widescreen laptop

[donna]

We recently purchased a 17 inch Digital Flatpanel Widescreen laptop with a resolution of 1920x1200. My application was developed on a regular PC using 1024x768 resolution. When I run my application on the widescreen monitor, all of the circles (LEDs and graphed circles show up as elipses. I need to have round objects show up round instead of eliptical.

I can change the laptop display to use a fixed aspect ratio scaling which fixes my circle/elipse problem but leaves the two black spaces at the sides. I don't know whether this will damage the monitor for long term use. I was wondering whether I need to recreate my menus using LabWindows on the Widescreen laptop in order to have my buttons and graphs be circles. Has anyone tried this and will this work?
Thanks,
Donna

[Ian.W]

Within the Edit Panel dialog box (for your main panel) in the UIR editor, take a look at the options when you click on "Other Attributes". In particular, disabling "Scale contents on resize", and setting resolution adjustment to 0%, may help you avoid needing to tinker with the display aspect ratio settings.

However, that won't help getting the flexibility of filling two different aspect ratio screens. For that I think you'd need to programmatically create your panel on the fly with the size and position of controls calculated based on the size of the available the screen.

Hope this helps,
Ian