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From: jonathan@jspc.wimsey.bc.ca (Jonathan Story)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Winword's WordBasic Dialog Box Units
Summary: X,Y == dX,dY ... Or does it?
Message-ID: <f7c/14ad9@jspc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 27 Jul 90 23:31:37 GMT
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    In TECHREF.DOC, the section "Dialog Control Definition Statements"
begins by defining the units used in defining the dialog.  It claims that
the X and Y coordinates for positioning and the dX and dY values for
specifying width and height are in the following multiples of the system
font character width:

         X:   1/8            Y:   1/12
        dX:   1/4           dY:   1/8

    But I wasn't able to create a dialog window with these values.  When
(through trial and error) I made dX=X and dY=Y everything seemed to work
okay.  My question is:  what are the _real_ units for  X, Y, dX, and dY?