Microsoft KB Archive/210590

= ACC2000: How to Convert Twips to Pixels =

Article ID: 210590

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

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 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition

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Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.

This article applies to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb) and to a Microsoft Access project (.adp).



SUMMARY
Because Microsoft Access stores dimension/location properties as twips, in certain cases you may have to convert twips to pixels, such as when you call a Windows API function. This article shows you how to do this.

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You can use the following ConvertTwipsToPixels function to convert twips to pixels. Note that pixels are not always square (the height and width are not the same); therefore, it is necessary to pass in the desired "direction" to use (horizontal or vertical).   Create a new module and type the following in the Declarations section: Option Explicit

Declare Function GetDC Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long Declare Function ReleaseDC Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, _ ByVal hdc As Long) As Long Declare Function GetDeviceCaps Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, _ ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long

Const WU_LOGPIXELSX = 88 Const WU_LOGPIXELSY = 90 NOTE: You may have some Microsoft Windows API functions defined in an existing Microsoft Access library; therefore, your declarations may be duplicates. If you receive a duplicate procedure name error message, remove or comment out the declarations statement in your code.   Type the following procedure: Function ConvertTwipsToPixels (lngTwips as Long, _  lngDirection as long) As Long

'Handle to device Dim lngDC as long Dim lngPixelsPerInch as Long Const nTwipsPerInch = 1440 lngDC = GetDC(0) If (lngDirection = 0) Then      'Horizontal lngPixelsPerInch = GetDeviceCaps(lngDC, WU_LOGPIXELSX) Else                           'Vertical lngPixelsPerInch = GetDeviceCaps(lngDC, WU_LOGPIXELSY) End If  lngDC = ReleaseDC(0, lngDC) ConvertTwipsToPixels = (lngTwips / nTwipsPerInch) * lngPixelsPerInch

End Function 

To call this function, pass the number of twips you want to convert, and another parameter indicating the horizontal or vertical measurement (0 for horizontal, non-zero for vertical). The following is a sample call: Function ShowConvert Dim lngOldTwips As Long lngOldTwips = 2377 ShowConvert = ConvertTwipsToPixels(lngOldTwips, 0) End Function

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