<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>This glossary explains some technical terms that you may come across when working with <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Basic.<a name="ende"/></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="8"/>When converting numbers, <help:productname>%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Basic uses the locale settings of the system for determining the type of decimal and thousand separator.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="9"/>The behavior has an effect on both the implicit conversion ( 1 + "2.3" = 3.3 ) as well as the runtime function <help:link Id="66406">IsNumeric</help:link>.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="30" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>In <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Basic, colors are treated as long integer value. The return value of color queries is also always a long integer value. When defining properties, colors can be specified using their RGB code that is converted to a long integer value using the <help:link Id="66436" Eid="rgb" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">RGB function</help:link>.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="33" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>In <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Basic, a <span class="T1">method parameter</span> or <span class="T1">property</span> a expecting unit information can be specified either as integer or long integer expression without a unit, or as a character string containing a unit. If no unit is passed to the method the default unit defined for the active document type will be used. If the parameter is passed as a character string containing a measurement unit, the default setting will be ignored. The default measurement unit for a document type can be set under <span class="T2">Tools - Options - (Document Type) - General</span>.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="6"/>A twip is a screen-independent unit which is used to define the uniform position and size of screen elements on all display systems. A twip is 1/1440th of an inch or 1/20 of a printer's point. There are 1440 twips to an inch or about 567 twips to a centimeter.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="108" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>URLs (<span class="T1">Uniform Resource Locators</span>) are used to determine the location of a ressource like a file in a file system, typically inside a network environment. A URL consists of a protocol specifier, a host specifier and a file and path specifier:</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="109" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>The most common usage of URLs is on the internet when specifying web pages. Example for protocols are <span class="T2">http</span>, <span class="T2">ftp</span>, or <span class="T2">file</span>. The <span class="T2">file</span> protocol specifier is used when referring to a file on the local file system.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="110" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>URL notation does not allow certain special characters to be used. These are either replaced by other characters or encoded. A slash (<span class="T2">/</span>) is used as a path separator. For example, a file referred to as <span class="T2">C:\My File.sxw</span> on the local host in "Windows notation" becomes <span class="T2">file:///C|/My%20File.sxw</span> in URL notation.</p>
