---On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:12:18 -0500, Blake Winton said
>> > That's pretty much the way I read it. If you can come up
>> > with an idea that allows for all the different viewers at
>> > all the different resolutions while still not having the
>> > Palm parse and layout the table, I'm all ears. ;)
>> I won't apologize for being a bad explainer, but, I already
>> did.
>
> Hmm... The way I understood your idea was that it relied on
> specific pixel positions, and so wouldn't work for my large
> GTK viewer (unless I wanted all my tables to be 160-pixels
> wide ;).
I'll try one more time. The parser creates an offscreen window
the size of the table (which is not 160x160 except by coincidece).
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Then it draws the boxes (if border width was >0) and places the text (as
specifed font-size, color, etc) at the locations shown in the document.
Think of it as verbal description of the table.
Make image-window 1280x900
Move to 0,0
Make a box at 0,0 1280 x 50 pixels
Put RED Size 8 (our font numbers) "Periodic Table of the Elements" at 472,16
Make a box at 0,55 55x55 pixels
Put BLUE Size 7 "Hy" at 42,60
Put image (document #42) at 30,70
Put GREEN Size 6 "Hydrogen 1" at 35,90
Make a box at 1200,55 55x55 pixels
Put BLUE Size 7 "He" at 1242,60
Put image (document #43) at 1230,70
Put GREEN Size 6 "Heleum 2" at 1235,90
Make a box at 0,110 55x55 pixels
Put BLUE Size 7 "Ne" at 42,115
Put image (document #44) at 30,125
Put GREEN Size 6 "Helium" at 35,229
[...]
>> Given the information in the table doc, the palm draws
>
> Okay, but please think about the other viewers out there.
> How will they handle it? This needs some thought before
> we can adopt your proposal.
How the viewer deals with the image is the viewers problem. Are all
your images limited to 160x160????? They aren't on my Palm IIIX!!!! I've
not looked at the hires stuff much, it seems to me that (just like the
original palms) they show as much as will fit on the screen and allow you
to scroll in both axes. If the whole thing fits on the screen, then don't
scroll it!
--re: RE: Tables Conversion
Chris
Christopher R. Hawks Software Engineer
Syscon Plantstar a Division of Syscon International
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