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oln=CREATEOBJECT("label")
>>oln.Top=1.5
>>?oln.Top

>>Not quite what you'd expect, eh? Try with other non integer values, even 1.0.
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>>It seems as if the controls instantiated this way, without a parent, accept decimal values as foxels and recalculate them into pixels immediately.
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>>This may be as old as 3.0, and I guess this is 56th time someone publishes it as a discovery :). Took me only 20 minutes to fix my code around this.
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>I get a multiplier of about 16 i.e.
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>NewTopValue = FLOOR( OldTopValue * 16 )
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I checked for some values around 7 (7.0 to 7.5) and it was about 15 in that case. I guess that's about the foxel value for Arial 9 or whatever is the default font for base classes.