Re: [Sheflug] Micro$oft Twips (Another Bodge)

[Mark Wrangham <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lol,

Twips from twits :)

mark


On 2002.01.19 03:49:49 +0000 Alan Wilson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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