[jaws-uk] Fw: Re: Pixile points
- From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:20:08 +0100
Thinking of moving to Kent? How about some private tuition, paid of course
Dorothy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Medway" <philmedway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 9:28 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Pixile points
> Hi Dorothy,
>
> Apologies if we omitted to explain the maximise window feature.
>
> It is one of those commonly used things which is assumed by those of us
> who
> have been using Windows for years.
>
> I hope that the following explanation of pixels, spelt p i x e l s, isn't
> too basic and boring but it might help to clear up some of your
> difficulties.
>
> Computer screens, pages printed on a dot matrix printer, digital photos
> etc.
> are all made up of lots of single dots called pixels.
>
> Microsoft Windows is a concept which tries to emulate an office desk where
> a
> number of items are scattered around and can be brought in to use or
> pushed
> out of the way as required. Each item is known as a window. On a typical
> desk one might have had a notebook open, a calculator, a telephone etc.
> Now, all of these things clutter up your desk so some things have to be
> cleared out of the way to make space for you to work on one particular
> thing. You can think of minimise, i.e. alt+space then n for number rather
> than m for mouse, as an equivalent of pushing something you don't want to
> use at the moment out of the way.
>
> Minimise reduces the size of the window down to a small picture on your
> screen, leaving more space for what you do wish to use now. The more
> space
> that a window uses the more pixels it takes up both vertically and
> horizontally and, as your screen has a finite number of pixels in either
> plane, . it's real estate, as Americans often call it, needs to be
> managed.
>
> Now, to the display of the time in Outlook express ...
>
> Here, we are defining a part of a line width in pixels required to display
> the characters which make up the time. Each character will have
> dimensions
> defined in terms of pixels high and pixels wide. The number of pixels
> required to specify the correct width for this column will be the number
> of
> pixels in a characters' width times the number of characters, including
> spaces, required to display the time.
>
> I'm sorry if I always seem to be giving long detailed explanations of
> things
> but the further that you delve in to the workings of Windows, the more
> detailed it becomes. Most folks using Windows would be astounded if they
> knew the complexity of the underlying programming involved in displaying
> even the most simple piece of text on a screen.
>
> HTH,
>
> Phil Medway
>
> philmedway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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>
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>
> Skype: philmedway
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:33 PM
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Pixile points
>
>
> Thank you Nigel, it is not really explaining tome the relevance to the
> Pixile points and the Time not being shown. I have now as stated found
> that
> 3 key strokes does it. I wish I had known that weeks ago. I spent hours
> following complex instructions as I have told the list. Now these
> Messengers
> you mention I seem to have all 3 of them and keep one at bay with some
> difficulty it keeps on at me Messenger not signed in, I do not want to
> speak 2 way conversations if that is what they are for. I lost my line
> connection today Line went foggy We had rain and in these parts that is
> more than enough in this drought riddled County to bring out the
> Gremlins
> and underground Springs play havoc. I can almost sense when it will
> happen
> now.. If the Engineer comes I say to he im go round the corner a hundred
> yards down to the Junction box green and tinker with it. What a shambles
> this town is. I then phoned Freeserve and got the Floaty Indian call
> centre and said now what about
> all this Spam you are sending and why are you tagging friends as Spam
> and
> why are Emails notbeing delivered but comingback with untrue statements
> like Timed out and Firewall blocked me and she says no no Freeserve is
> not
> doing that. Them she said go to the member centre and tell them about it.
> So
> now I have to fight my way to the Members Centre. All this has been done
> many times but no notice is taken. Sorry for the long moan but it has been
> one of those days. Now someone tell me what difference do the Pixile
> measurements mean to Jaws and Column width and Jaws being able to read
> things? DorothyPs All I know about Pixile points is to do with TFT screens
> and sharpness of photos and from Which Magazine some cheat by taking a
> Pixile point measurment from the outside of it not the centre so like
> the head of a pin, they cheat if not taken from centre. Now I am sure
> this
> titbit is of use to some one buying a TFT Monitor but what is the
> relevance in my situation in
> O.E and Column width??
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