Nice cm ruler. Only a click away

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Thu Nov 3 01:57:31 EDT 2011


I love this use list!

Bob


On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Roger Eller wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> I added to your very cool script a slight bit to make the cm ruler true on
>> any monitor.  Users will have to adjust the three variables at the top to
>> represent their monitors accurately.
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>>     put 1920 into tMonitorWidth
>>     put 1200 into tMonitorHeight
>>     put 24 into tMonitorDiag
>> 
>>     put sqrt((tMonitorWidth * tMonitorWidth) + (tMonitorHeight *
>> tMonitorHeight)) into tDiagRes
>>     put round(tDiagRes/tMonitorDiag,3) into tDPI
>>     put tDPI /2.54 into Q
>> 
>>     repeat with i = 0 to 10
>>           new grc
>>           set the style of last grc to Polygon
>>           set the points of last grc to 25,300 & return & 25,307
>>           set the loc of last grc to 25+ i*Q,300
>>           set the selected of last grc to true
>> 
>>           new grc
>>           set the style of last grc to Polygon
>>           set the points of last grc to 39,306 & return & 39,310
>>           set the loc of last grc to 39+ i*Q,302
>>           set the selected of last grc to true
>> 
>>           new fld
>>           set the opaque of last fld to false
>>           set the width of last fld to 17
>>           set the height of last fld to 15
>>            set the textSize of last fld to 9
>>            set the showBorder of last fld to false
>>           set the margins of last fld to 0,4,0,4
>>           set the textAlign of last fld to center
>>           set the lockText of last fld to true
>>           set the autoHilite of last fld to false
>>           set the showFocusBorder of last fld to false
>>           set loc of last fld to 25+ i*Q,292
>>           put i into last fld
>>           set the selected of last fld to true
>>     end repeat
>> 
>>     group
>> 
>>     set the showBorder of last grp to true
>>     set the lineSize of last grp to 1
>>     set the threeD of last grp to false
>>     set the height of last grp to 27
>>     set the opaque of last grp to true
>>     set the backgroundColor of last grp to 255,255,205
>>     set the borderColor of last grp to 147,147,147
>> 
>>      set the script of last grp to "on mouseDown" & cr & "grab me" & cr &
>> "end mouseDown"
>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Michael Kristensen wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi there
>>> 
>>> Here is a nice cm ruler that span fx a iMac 27. Only a click away.
>>> 
>>> Make a new wd
>>> Make a btn
>>> 
>>> Put this script in it and click...
>> 
> 
> get the screenRect to get tMonitorWidth and tMonitorHeight.
> Then there's only the tMonitorDiag to manually input.
> 
> ˜Roger
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