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Sijmen J. Mulder

Visual Basic 3 (and/or 6? not sure) used 'dips' (device-independent pixels) as the standard unit of measure and it would always mess up my pixel-perfect layouts. I wrote this sort of calibration tool to figure out the number of dips per pixel on a system but what an idiot I was! You could just go to the form (window) and select pixels as the unit of measurement. Well I was 12 or something so I have an excuse.