Himetric

Himetric is a unit of length used in computers that is independent of screen resolution .

definition

A himetric is a thousandth of a centimeter , i.e. 0.01 millimeter . The number of himetric units in a line of, for example, 10 centimeters is 10,000. The resulting line that appears on a screen is four inches long, regardless of the size of the video display area. Himetric thus converts every logical unit into a value of 0.01 millimeters. The positive x-coordinate is set to the right and the positive y-coordinate to the top.

Benefit and example of use

As a rule, whole number values ​​are sufficient to store lengths specified in Himetric. Among other things, this avoids the rounding errors that occur with floating point numbers . The Navision software consistently uses Himetric for the positions and dimensions of screen elements. However, the name Himetric is not explicitly mentioned.

See also

• Twip (similar but non-metric unit of measure)
• pixel

Web links

• Visual Studio 2015 - Pixel / HIMETRIC Conversion Global Functions on msdn.microsoft.com, accessed September 2, 2016
• POINTER_INFO structure on msdn.microsoft.com, accessed September 2, 2016
• Conversion from Himetric to Twips or Pixels with Visual Basic. on aboutvb.de, accessed on September 2, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Visual Basic Concepts - Converting Scales. msdn.microsoft.com, accessed September 2, 2016 . 
2. ↑ CoordinateSystem.HIMETRIC. msdn.microsoft.com, accessed September 2, 2016 . 
3. ↑ SetMapMode function (Windows). msdn.microsoft.com, accessed September 2, 2016 .