Can one make a small software GUI bigger?

[rasputin1963]

I'm wondering:

 

Sometimes with older softwares,   the GUI will be shown to you iin a window which only maximizes to a certain size....     a not very big size.

Take Voxengo's IMPULSE MODELER,  f'rinstance.    It only maximizes to a relatively small size in my big widescreen monitor,   making work within it a bit too fiddly and tiny.

Short of manually setting your screen resolution lower,  is there any secret trick or workaround to make a smaller GUI window maximize bigger?  I'm in WINDOWS 7 x64.

 

Thanks,  ras

 

 

[MikeRivers]

I don't know why they do that, and it's not just with older software. Maybe making sizeable and scrollable windows is more difficult than I think. I just figured that there was a library for that. I didn't buy a PreSonus 44VSL 4-channel USB audio interface (which otherwise was just what I was looking for) because their mixer control panel was too big for the screen on my netbook computer - the computer that I wanted to use with the interface. The only way I could use it with that computer was to use an external monitor (but it's a cheap netbook).

I use the Voxengo SPAN plug-in when I want to show the distortion and noise spectrum in a review, and that barely fits the screen on my "writing" computer.

Revolting, I say!

[Rabid]

If you are using a touchpad instead of a mouse, some of these have the option to magnify the screen when you spread your fingers on the touchpad. My newest Win7 notebook does this and it is very handy.

[MikeRivers]

I can magnify the image on my tablet, but the problem is that the image is already too big to fit the screen. When I was looking at netbooks, I saw one, maybe an Asus, that had a utility that would let you, in essence, move the "window" that was the screen around so that you could see different parts of the image, though still not the whole image.

I could make that PreSonus thing work if I could move the top of its window off the screen. I can do that using the cursor keys, but as soon as I click anywhere in that scooted-up window, for example, a fader on the mixer, the window pops back to where Windows wants it, with the top bar no higher than the top of the screen.