| Subject | Re: Metric conversion |
| From | Tom <IHaveNoEmail@ddress> |
| Date | Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:16:35 -0400 |
| Newsgroups | dbase.getting-started |
On 3/25/23 3:34 PM, Mervyn Bick 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. > > > > * Too late Mervyn. That is exactly how I went about figuring out what I wanted. I did spend a bit of time scratching my head about why the startup window with metric of characters with a height of 16 and a width of 40 could possibly be taller than it was wide when ,to my eye, the opposite was true. I made the assumption that both dimensions would have the same conversion factor. My error. If anyone might have use for it ... multiply a character metric object's width by 7 to get pixel width multiply a character metric object's height by 22 to get pixel height Thanks for your response. Regards, Tom | |