Xbasic

EXTENT_WIDTH Function

Syntax

Width as N = EXTENT_WIDTH()

Arguments

Width

The width of the print image.

Description

Get the width of the page.

Discussion

The EXTENT_WIDTH()function is available for use inside of the code section of the UI_PRINTER_DRAW() function. It returns the width of the print image in inches. Used only in the code section of UI_PRINTER_DRAW().

This section of code uses EXTENT_WIDTH() to determine the width of the print image being created.

page_description = <<%code%
...
'this tells me how big the page is in inches
page_width = extent_width()
page_height = extent_height()
...
%code%

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