Autoshape not accurate?

[tball]

I used the following subroutine to draw a rectangle on the screen. It should be anchored at 50,50 and be 50 wide by 50 tall but when I check it, its not. its achored at 49.8,49.8 and is 50.4 wide by 50.4 tall.

Does anyone else have this problem and if so is there an easy fix?

Thanks
tball


Sub drawTest()

ActiveSheet.Shapes.AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, 50, 50, 50, 50).Select

MsgBox Selection.Top & "<>" & Selection.Height & "<>" & Selection.Left & "<>" & Selection.Width

End Sub

 

[Damon Ostrander]

Hi tball,

I believe the "problem" is that the Height, Width, Top, and Left properties are specified in points, which are units of 1/72 inch. However, the values you specify must be a whole number of screen pixels, where the size of a pixel is determined by your screen resolution setting. The most common setting for this is 96 pixels/inch. In this case the each point would be 96/72 pixel.

I believe your screen resolution is set to 120 pixels per inch, also a very common setting. With this setting a Top or Left value of 50 points would be 50 x 120 / 72 pixels, or 83.333 pixels. But the number of pixels has to be a whole number so the number of points must be reduced to the value that corresponds to 83 pixels, which gives 83 x 72 / 120 points or 49.8 points. This explains why you get this value when you set a value of 50 points.

All this just means that any value you set in points will be converted to the nearest value in pixels, which sometimes forces the point you set to have to be adjusted slightly. This will not be noticeable on the screen, however, since the resolution of the screen is one pixel, and the adjustments are always a fraction of a pixel.