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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 <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03010305.xhp" name="RGB function">RGB function</link>.</paragraph> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="measurementunits"> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146119" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="32">Measurement Units</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154013" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="33">In $[officename] Basic, a <emph>method parameter</emph> or a <emph>property</emph> 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 <emph><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - (Document Type) - General</emph>.</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="twips"> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145801"><bookmark_value>twips; definition</bookmark_value> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145801" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" oldref="5">Twips</paragraph> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154731" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="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.</paragraph> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="urlnotation"> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153159" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="106">URL Notation</paragraph> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153415" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="108">URLs (<emph>Uniform Resource Locators</emph>) are used to determine the location of a resource 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:</paragraph> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149121" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="107"> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>protocol</emph>://<emph>host.name</emph>/<emph>path/to/the/file.html</emph> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir</paragraph> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3168612" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="109">The most common usage of URLs is on the internet when specifying web pages. Example for protocols are <emph>http</emph>, <emph>ftp</emph>, or <emph>file</emph>. The <emph>file</emph> protocol specifier is used when referring to a file on the local file system.</paragraph> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150324" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="110">URL notation does not allow certain special characters to be used. These are either replaced by other characters or encoded. A slash (<emph>/</emph>) is used as a path separator. For example, a file referred to as <emph>C:\My File.sxw</emph> on the local host in "Windows notation" becomes <emph>file:///C|/My%20File.sxw</emph> in URL notation.</paragraph> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 71cdf0e10cSrcweir</sort> 72cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 73cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 74