Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-03 Thread Malcolm Lear
It would make resetting the book a lot easier On 03/03/2011 00:52, Timothy Swenson wrote: Years ago I scanned the whole Jan Jones book and OCR'ed the text and put it into a word document. I cleaned up most of it and was planning to add back in the drawings. I should be able to find it and

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Lee Privett
: gdgqler To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL On 16 Jan 2011, at 15:03, Rich Mellor wrote: 190 line_diff=(101*Yratio/hi)*wid/('135.5041505'*Xratio) Blimey! How do you get 135.5041505? Surely you could let

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Park
=UK_VintageComputing_RLhash=item43a5807c34#ht_500wt_1156 Lee - Back to the QL- - Original Message - From: gdgqler To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL On 16 Jan 2011, at 15:03, Rich Mellor wrote: 190 line_diff

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Rich Mellor
#ht_500wt_1156 Lee - Back to the QL- - Original Message - From: gdgqler To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL On 16 Jan 2011, at 15:03, Rich Mellor wrote: 190 line_diff=(101*Yratio/hi)*wid/('135.5041505

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 02/03/11 20:43, Dave Park wrote: I have, a few weeks ago, asked Jan Jones for permission to reprint/reformat it (whatever she agrees to) so a cleaner copy is available to the community than the scan that is generally available... That would be great. I have a really bad scan of this book

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I have placed a bid on this book. I have, a few weeks ago, asked Jan Jones for permission to reprint/reformat it (whatever she agrees to) so a cleaner copy is available to the community than the scan that is generally available... Someone (Malcolm Lear?) was trying to redo this book from a

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Lear, Malcolm J
From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] on behalf of Dilwyn Jones [dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: 02 March 2011 22:37 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL I have placed a bid

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I have, a few weeks ago, asked Jan Jones for permission to reprint/reformat it (whatever she agrees to) so a cleaner copy is available to the community than the scan that is generally available... Someone (Malcolm Lear?) was trying to redo this book from a scan somewhere IIRC. This might

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Timothy Swenson
Years ago I scanned the whole Jan Jones book and OCR'ed the text and put it into a word document. I cleaned up most of it and was planning to add back in the drawings. I should be able to find it and give it to anyone who is working on making a better copy. It would save them some time.

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-03-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Tim, I should be able to find it and give it to anyone who is working on making a better copy. It would save them some time. Yes please! Thanks. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-01-16 Thread Rich Mellor
On 16/01/2011 14:55, Lee Privett wrote: Hey people, has anyone come across any articles or information that allows the use of the line or circle command that draws to the screen accurately accoding the known dot resolution? Let me explain Say you have a maximum screen of 1280w800h, and a

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-01-16 Thread Lee Privett
: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL On 16/01/2011 14:55, Lee Privett wrote: Hey people, has anyone come across any articles or information that allows the use of the line or circle command that draws to the screen accurately accoding the known dot resolution? Let me explain Say you have

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-01-16 Thread gdgqler
On 16 Jan 2011, at 15:03, Rich Mellor wrote: 190 line_diff=(101*Yratio/hi)*wid/('135.5041505'*Xratio) Blimey! How do you get 135.5041505? Surely you could let us have twenty more significant figures? Jan Jones, on page 115, says that OPEN#3,SCR_137x100 will give a square window. I found

Re: [Ql-Users] scale and drawing on the QL

2011-01-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
gdgqler wrote: 190 line_diff=(101*Yratio/hi)*wid/('135.5041505'*Xratio) Blimey! How do you get 135.5041505? Surely you could let us have twenty more significant figures? Aspect ratio is 1.355 for PAL (and all SMSQ/E) systems and 1.173 for NTSC QLs. For current SMSQ/E systems I actually made

Re: [ql-users] Scale

2006-10-04 Thread P Witte
Rich writes: Given that by default the top edge of the window is 100 in the graphics coordinate system, how do I find out what the right hand edge coordinate is, based on the size of the window? Is this the same across platforms? The figures I get dont appear to make sense! OK Per, if

Re: [ql-users] Scale

2006-10-03 Thread Dilwyn Jones
There was an article (by me, so it might be useless) in Toady Vol 8 Issue 1 page 46 about SCALE. -- Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Scale Rich Mellor writes: Now

Re: [ql-users] Scale

2006-10-03 Thread P Witte
Dilwyn Jones writes: There was an article (by me, so it might be useless) in Toady Vol 8 Issue 1 page 46 about SCALE. Drat! Just the issue Im missing! Does your article touch on the issue of determining the relationship between the graphic co-ordinates and window sizes across platforms?

Re: [ql-users] Scale

2006-10-03 Thread Dilwyn Jones
There was an article (by me, so it might be useless) in Toady Vol 8 Issue 1 page 46 about SCALE. Drat! Just the issue Im missing! ;-)) Does your article touch on the issue of determining the relationship between the graphic co-ordinates and window sizes across platforms? Rich'es piece does

Re: [ql-users] Scale

2006-10-02 Thread Rich Mellor
Now, if you had the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual, you would be able to find out this weird and wonderful information (ok enough of the plug). As we cannot post attachments to the list, I have placed a copy of the description from the Reference Manual at: