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diff --git a/helpcontent2/source/text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp b/helpcontent2/source/text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bfdfc2aaf --- /dev/null +++ b/helpcontent2/source/text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> + + +<!-- + * This file is part of the LibreOffice project. + * + * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public + * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this + * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. + * + * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice: + * + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed + * with this work for additional information regarding copyright + * ownership. 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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">$[officename] Basic Glossary</title> +<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp</filename> +</topic> +<history> +<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> +</history> +</meta> +<body> +<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145068" xml-lang="en-US" level="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/00000002.xhp" name="$[officename] Basic Glossary">$[officename] Basic Glossary</link></paragraph> +<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"> +<section id="dezimal"> +<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155133" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Decimal Point</paragraph> +<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"> +<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155854" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Colors</paragraph> +<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"> +<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146119" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Measurement Units</paragraph> +<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> +<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145801" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Twips</paragraph> +<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"> +<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153159" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">URL Notation</paragraph> +<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> |