On Monday 14 September 2009 21:59:06 Benoît Minisini wrote: > Sorry, my joke didn't work! :-/ > > I meant that AFAIK, Draw.Ellipse() didn't change at all since the > beginning. It always took the coordinates of the rectangle surrounding it. Benoit, I cannot believe in that because I have upgraded my version 2 days ago and my screen shows a different picture running the same code. Also in the Gambas book of J.W.Rittinghouse (which is not perfect) I can read about Draw.Ellipse( arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4) where arg1 and arg2 are coordinates of a center but arg3 and arg4 are to set the horizontal and vertical width. And this is logical. If one wants to draw several ellipses changing their size around the same center he/she can change only arg3 and arg4. But as it is implemented now the arguments would look like:
Draw.Ellipse( X_centre-X_width/2, Y_centre-Y_width/2, X_width, Y_width) Which looks very artificial. For me however important is to know whether this convention will be kept unchanged in the future and I think it should be documented as it is not intuitive. On the other subject... Some time ago I wrote to you about the ValueBox and "scientifick notation" for numbers. I have found that even at present it is possible to show values in this notation (it is automatically used) if the value is very-very small or too big. Like 1.0E-30. This makes it even more illogical that such a number, which can be displayed if supplied in the code, and so is absolutely legitimate, cannot be entered by the user. This is an argument against making another special ValueBoxScientifick but rather for changing the existing control. Though of course It is always possible to use a TextBox and to program the necessary checks and transformations. Regards Aleks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
