| Subject | Re: Metric conversion |
| From | Richard <rclark4@ncap.rr.com> |
| Date | Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:57:51 -0400 |
| Newsgroups | dbase.getting-started |
But those factors depend on your form's ScaleFontName and ScaleFontSize On Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:34:28 +0200, Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: >On 2023/03/25 18:27, Tom wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Found lots of conversion formulas in the dUFLP but not the one I am >> looking for. >> >> I wish to convert form metric characters to form metric pixels. >> >> Seems like I saw this in some program in the dUFLP but, as usual, cannot >> remember where. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Tom > >Set up a form with metric = 0 (Characters) with top = 10 , left = 10, >height = 10 and width = 100 and save it. Open the form in the designer >and change the metric to 6 (Pixels) and save. If you open the form in >the sourcecode editor you will see that > > height = 10.0 > left = 10.0 > top = 10.0 > width = 100.0 > >has been changed to > > height = 220.0 > left = 70.0 > top = 220.0 > width = 700.0 > > >The easiest way to convert a form's metric from character to pixels is >to open it in the designer, change the metric property from 0 to 6 and >save the form. dBASE will do all the conversions for you. > >If you have many forms to convert you could write a program to read a >form's source code line by line, parse each line and multiply height and >top properties by 22 and multiply left and width properties by 7 before >writing the line back to a new file. > >You will also need to check that the metric property is included in the >form's constructor code. It it is change it to 6, if it isn't (which is >quite likely if you haven't changed the metric property and then changed >it back to character) then add the line. > > >Mervyn. > > > | |