Posted by Brian Levantine on December 30, 2006 at 09:22:14:
In Reply to: Re: Windows Dialog Programming posted by Grant Foraker on December 29, 2006 at 14:07:14:
A pixel is, well, a pixel. It is smallest addressable unit in a window. Most Windows work is done in pixels.
A point is a "Printers Point" which is 1/72 of an inch. It is probably the most common unit of measure used in reference to a font. I included a special function for this so that the arithmetic conversion would not need to be done by IB programmers.
These days, when printing, we require a finer unit of measure to render graphical objects. The TWIP (TWenty Inch Point) is 1/20 of a point which provides 1440 (20*72) pixels per inch for high resolution printing.