Unit (java-gnome 4.0.19 API Documentation)

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org.gnome.gtk
Class Unit

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  org.freedesktop.bindings.Constant
      org.gnome.gtk.Unit

public final class Unit
extends org.freedesktop.bindings.Constant
extends org.freedesktop.bindings.Constant

Constants describing different units which are be used when giving the dimensions of a piece of paper. Used when getting dimensions from a PaperSize.

Since:: 4.0.10
Author:: Andrew Cowie

Field Summary
`static Unit`	`INCH` Size in "inches", America's pre-industrial age measuring unit.
`static Unit`	`MM` Size in millimetres, which are 1/10^th of a centimetre and 1/1000^th of a metre.
`static Unit`	`PIXEL`
`static Unit`	`POINTS` Size in "points", which are defined as 1/72^nd of an inch, which works out to about 0.35 millimetres.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class org.freedesktop.bindings.Constant
`toString`

Methods inherited from class Object
`equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

Field Detail

INCH

public static final Unit INCH

Size in "inches", America's pre-industrial age measuring unit. Roughly corresponds to the size of your big toe (the fact that there are 12 inches to a foot seems a bit strange given that most of us have only 10 toes).

Interestingly, a "two by four" is a common description for a wooden beam used in construction, stemming from their having originally had a cross-section of 2 by 4 inches. Successive generations of profiteering forestry companies and unscrupulous builders have, however, cut margins and shortchanged customers to the point where a modern "two by four" you can buy at a lumber yard is barely a miserable 0.79 by 1.57 inches in cross-section. This, amazingly enough, is exactly 2 by 4 centimetres.

Reports of a conspiracy to force the Americans to switch to metric are, obviously, completely baseless.

MM

public static final Unit MM

Size in millimetres, which are 1/10^th of a centimetre and 1/1000^th of a metre.

PIXEL

public static final Unit PIXEL

POINTS

public static final Unit POINTS

Size in "points", which are defined as 1/72^nd of an inch, which works out to about 0.35 millimetres.