[Sheflug] Micro$oft Twips (Another Bodge)

[Alan Wilson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure some of you have heard this one before, but I feel for it at work
today.

I spent all afternoon just trying to get Access 97 put put a label in
the exact X,Y coordinates I told it too, only it was having none of it.
Then is a last ditch attempt I tried the on-line help and guess what,
Micro$oft don't use Centimeters, millimetters or inches or anything else
sensable to possition things on the screen.  They don't even uses
pixcels, no as always they have to be different, they use Twips !!!

Ok after lots of coffee I came around to the fact that I had to use Twip
so then I did a search in google to find out what a twip is and guess
what its so simple, there are 576 Twips in a Centermeter or 20 Twips in
a pixcel so all my X and Y coords on the screen have to be mutliplied by
576 before Access makes sence of it !

I know this has nothing to do with Linux, but I'm posting it as yet
another reminder (as if I didn't have enough) of why I left Windoze
behind on my home mahcine and went the Linux way. !!  Especially as QT
works in picels nice and Simple.  


___________________________________________________________________

Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk . 
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to 
shef-lug-request@list.sheflug.org.uk with the word
"unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.