I always use native resolution, 1680x1050 right now on my Dell 22".
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Have you tried just increase font size (+ set display to native resolution)? Don't know what OS do you use, but AFAIK it should be only a few clicks in almost all OSs.
Have you tried a bigger res. with, lets say, 22 pt font? Ok, I admit that perhaps with bigger font it will look quite badly (buttons, windows and so on) :~
BTW, Matt, not your case, but you can always use dynamic size, I mean you can use "%" instead of X pixels (when you define body, head, or any other part size. Can you do that in Flash?)
I was going to do that next - ATM its part of a school project [ design a web page / site in Flash ] , but % is next ... But I still wonder what screen res I should aim for as a minimum .
As when it re-sizes things have a tendency to go whack , especially when down sizing .
When I do the rebuild [ of my site ] it will most likely be a combination of HTML Java and Flash ...
Doing it all in flash makes it a bit on the large size - I always liked the minimalist approach , so the entire thing would need to be as much under 100kb as possible .
on all my sites i have made i always used scaling for the layout (% instead of pixels), all except one i made to look like a application... but as you said its a school project, so they make you progress at their rate