[Gambas-user] Drawing

[Benoit Minisini]

On Thursday 04 May 2006 11:27, Timothy Marshal-Nichols wrote:
> > > If a kind people could make a little example of printing, I will
> > > put it with
> > > the other Gambas examples :-)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Benoit Minisini
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gambas-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:gambas-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of javier
> > romero
> > Sent: Wednesday, 03 May 2006 21:55
> > To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Gambas-user] Drawing
> >
> >
> > Hi, I try to run your example in Gambas 1.0.15, but it does'nt works.
> > The first time say me the form is not proper to use in this
> > version. After that when run, no buttons appers, only the tab
> > stripan there is not way to probe the example.
> >
> > Regards
> > Javier
>
> The example printing project was created in Gambas 2. This what Gambas 1
> does to any Gambas 2 project – not just this project. You may have guessed
> this, as the attachment name was “Printing.Gambas2.V0.0.1.tar”
>
> In general when you open a version 2 project in version 1 you need to:
> 1.	Save every file again. This includes every class, form and module. You
> properly also need to save the hidden .project file.
> 2.	On a form Gambas 1 and Gambas 2 use different method of positioning
> controls. You will need to move the controls and resize the form. See the
> comments in the emails for "Incorrect property value"
> However I have saved you the trouble of doing it in this case as I have
> attached a Gambas 1 version to this email. This is called
> “Printing.Gambas1.V0.0.2.tar”
>
> I have made a few small changes to the example. But they are only changes
> to the comments – not to the code. This is called
> “Printing.Gambas2.V0.0.2.tar” .
>
>
>
> ALSO I ASKED A QUESTION IN MY ORIGINAL EMAIL. I WAS HOPING FOR AN ANSWER. I
> THINK THIS IS A BUG WITH GAMBAS VERSION 1 AND 2:
>
>
>
> There is one problem. This is with the drawing of a SVG file. When you call
> Draw.Drawing it always draws the SVG file at the same size. For example the
> following:
> 	Draw.Drawing(SVGDrawing, 10, 10, 110, 110)
> and
> 	Draw.Drawing(SVGDrawing, 10, 10, 210, 210)
> produces drawings at the original size of the drawing. The help says you
> setting the width and height should scale the drawing. Setting the width
> and height appears to have no effect. This means when printing you always
> get a thumbnail whether you want it or not.
>
> (You could convert to a Picture, then a Image, then scale, then print. But
> this would not scale very well for printing.)
>
> At first the thought this was just a problem with the version of gambas I
> was using (1.9.17). But I also created a version of this project in the
> stable version Gambas 1.0.15. The problem also appears to be in that
> version also. So now I am now thinking the bug is in both versions 1 and 2
> of Gambas.
>
> Try out the example. In ModulePrinting look at the procedure PrintDrawing.
> If you uncomment the line Draw.Rect... you can see the size the SVG size
> should print out at.
>
> 8-{)} Timothy Marshal-Nichols
> <mailto: timothy.marshal-nichols at ...247...>

Do the new Draw syntaxes of 1.9.32 meet your needs? Can you update your 
printing examples with them?

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini