Doubt in BOX command

[Former Member]

Hi,

While defining the BOX command in script, is it necessary that we give the X and Y positions in aphostropies?

please comfirm.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

It is necessary to give X-pos and Y-pos otherwise it can't decide where to put the box in the window.

Regards

Sandipan

[Former Member]

I am giving XPOS and YPOS , but my question is while giving the positons, the value needs to be given like this 2.3 or '2.3'

because its not working in the first case.

Please comfirm.

[Former Member]

Yes it will not work in the first case you will have to enter the value within ' ' like 'a'.

[Former Member]

hi,

it is not necessary to give X and Y positions.by default the box will be Drawn at the starting position of the window.

[Former Member]

Yes it is necessary

[Former Member]

hi,

Yes it is necessary to draw a box.... here are all the possible ways to use it

/: BOX FRAME 10 TW

Draws a frame around the current window with a frame thickness of 10 TW (= 0.5 PT).

/: BOX INTENSITY 10
Fills the window background with shadowing having a gray scale of 10 %.
/: BOX HEIGHT 0 TW FRAME 10 TW
Draws a horizontal line across the complete top edge of the window.
/: BOX WIDTH 0 TW FRAME 10 TW
Draws a vertical line along the complete height of the left hand edge of the window.
/: BOX WIDTH '17.5' CM HEIGHT 1 CM FRAME 10 TW INTENSITY 15
/: BOX WIDTH '17.5' CM HEIGHT '13.5' CM FRAME 10 TW
/: BOX XPOS '10.0' CM WIDTH 0 TW HEIGHT '13.5' CM FRAME 10 TW
/: BOX XPOS '13.5' CM WIDTH 0 TW HEIGHT '13.5' CM FRAME 10 TW
 

[Former Member]

hi,

It is not necessary to give X and Y positions.

these X and Y positions are refers to position where u want to locate the box in a window of a page.

the syntax is :

/: BOX WIDTH '17.5' CM HEIGHT 1 CM FRAME 10 TW INTENSITY 15

/: BOX WIDTH '17.5' CM HEIGHT '13.5' CM FRAME 10 TW

/: BOX XPOS '10.0' CM WIDTH 0 TW HEIGHT '13.5' CM FRAME 10 TW

/: BOX XPOS '13.5' CM WIDTH 0 TW HEIGHT '13.5' CM FRAME 10 TW

thanks

raji

reward if helpful.

[dhruv_shah3]

Hi,

/: BOX WIDTH '17.5' CM HEIGHT 1 CM FRAME 10 TW INTENSITY 15

/: BOX WIDTH '17.5' CM HEIGHT '13.5' CM FRAME 10 TW

/: BOX XPOS '10.0' CM WIDTH 0 TW HEIGHT '13.5' CM FRAME 10 TW

/: BOX XPOS '13.5' CM WIDTH 0 TW HEIGHT '13.5' CM FRAME 10 TW

Otherwise it will not understand without the width and height.

HTH

Regards,

Dhruv Shah

[Former Member]

Hi

u can even declare a box without xpos and ypos...

u need to give the values as '2.3'

Edited by: Jyothsna M on Mar 28, 2008 10:39 AM