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You may obtain a copy of * the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . --> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared00000002xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">$[officename] Basic Glossary</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp</filename> </topic> <history> <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> </history> </meta> <body> <h1 id="hd_id3145068"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp" name="$[officename] Basic Glossary">$[officename] Basic Glossary</link></h1> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US">This glossary explains some technical terms that you may come across when working with $[officename] Basic.</paragraph> <sort order="asc" descendant="h2"> <section id="dezimal"> <h2 id="hd_id3155133">Decimal Point</h2> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156443" xml-lang="en-US">When converting numbers, $[officename] Basic uses the locale settings of the system for determining the type of decimal and thousand separator.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US">The behavior has an effect on both the implicit conversion ( 1 + "2.3" = 3.3 ) as well as the function <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03102700.xhp" name="IsNumeric">IsNumeric</link>.</paragraph> </section> <section id="colors"> <h2 id="hd_id3155854">Colors</h2> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145366" xml-lang="en-US">In $[officename] Basic, colors are treated as long integer value. The return value of color queries is also always a long integer value. When defining properties, colors can be specified using their RGB code that is converted to a long integer value using the <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03010305.xhp" name="RGB function">RGB function</link>.</paragraph> </section> <section id="measurementunits"> <h2 id="hd_id3146119">Measurement Units</h2> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154013" xml-lang="en-US">In $[officename] Basic, a <emph>method parameter</emph> or a <emph>property</emph> expecting unit information can be specified either as integer or long integer expression without a unit, or as a character string containing a unit. If no unit is passed to the method the default unit defined for the active document type will be used. If the parameter is passed as a character string containing a measurement unit, the default setting will be ignored. The default measurement unit for a document type can be set under <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><emph>%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</emph></caseinline><defaultinline><emph>Tools - Options</emph></defaultinline></switchinline><emph> - (Document Type) - General</emph>.</paragraph> </section> <section id="twips"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145801"><bookmark_value>twips; definition</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <h2 id="hd_id3145801">Twips</h2> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154731" xml-lang="en-US">A twip is a screen-independent unit which is used to define the uniform position and size of screen elements on all display systems. A twip is 1/1440th of an inch or 1/20 of a printer's point. There are 1440 twips to an inch or about 567 twips to a centimeter.</paragraph> </section> <section id="urlnotation"> <h2 id="hd_id3153159">URL Notation</h2> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153415" xml-lang="en-US">URLs (<emph>Uniform Resource Locators</emph>) are used to determine the location of a resource like a file in a file system, typically inside a network environment. A URL consists of a protocol specifier, a host specifier and a file and path specifier:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149121" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>protocol</emph>://<emph>host.name</emph>/<emph>path/to/the/file.html</emph> </paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3168612" xml-lang="en-US">The most common usage of URLs is on the internet when specifying web pages. Example for protocols are <emph>http</emph>, <emph>ftp</emph>, or <emph>file</emph>. The <emph>file</emph> protocol specifier is used when referring to a file on the local file system.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150324" xml-lang="en-US">URL notation does not allow certain special characters to be used. These are either replaced by other characters or encoded. A slash (<emph>/</emph>) is used as a path separator. For example, a file referred to as <emph>C:\Users\alice\Documents\My File.odt</emph> on the local host in "Windows notation" becomes <emph>file:///C:/Users/alice/Documents/My%20File.odt</emph> in URL notation.</paragraph> </section> </sort> </body> </helpdocument>