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

[Alan Wilson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for pulling me up on that one Ted, luckily to the naked eye I
managed to get everything in the right place and I can't see my
customers arguing over a twip or two, but u never know :)

On 19 Jan 2002 09:57:53 +0000, Ted.Harding [at] nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
> On 19-Jan-02 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 !
> 
> Hmmm. I don't know who invented the name "twip" (could be MS,
> I suppose). But the above is not quite right.
> 
> 20 twips = 1 point = 1/72 inch (as now standard for printers)
> ( => 567 twips/cm: 1440/2.54 = 566.93 )
> 
> (so could be that "twip" is short for "twentieth of a point" and
> may even have been "twp" in Olde English).
> 
> The number of twips in a pixel depends on the size of the pixel,
> and may have to be different in the X and Y directions.
> 
> At
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q210590
> 
> MS provide a little conversion program for Access applications,
> which basically implements a division and a multiplication.
> At the start of the description, they specify
> 
>   ACC2000: How to Convert Twips to Pixels (Q210590)
>   The information in this article applies to:
>            Microsoft Access 2000 
> 
>   Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability,
>             and multiuser skills.
> 
> Hmmm again.
> 
> Ted.
> 
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