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Draw the Earth on its orbital path around the sun when it's at the position for the Winter Solstice in the Northern hemisphere. See how Earth's tilt causes part of the planet to not get any light, such as in Northern Norway.
VBA procedure that's easy to call from code behind your reports. Send the report object, center coordinate and orbit radius for the Winter Solstice with Earth and Sun. Optionally, you can choose colors for different objects.
The code that does the drawing is all in one module that you can easily import into your projects. Uses Circle, Line, and Print methods.
Download zipped BAS file you can import into your Access projects: bas_Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p.zip
Download zipped ACCDB file with a sample report and a module: Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p__ACCDB.zip
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'*************** Code Start *************************************************** ' Purpose : draw the December Solstice on an Access report ' specify center coordinate and orbital radius ' optionally set colors for Earth, Sun, Rays, and lines ' USES Circle, Line, Print ' Author : crystal (strive4peace) ' Code List: www.msaccessgurus.com/code.htm ' This code: https://msaccessgurus.com/VBA/Draw_SolsticeDecember.htm ' LICENSE : ' You may freely use and share this code, but not sell it. ' Keep attribution. Mark your changes. Use at your own risk. ' bas_Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p '------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ' Global variables '------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'comment if defined elsewhere Public Const PI As Double = 3.14159 Public Const gColorYellowSun As Long = 7664895 'RGB(255, 244, 116) 'sun Public Const gColorOrangeRay As Long = 3333375 'RGB(255, 220, 50) Public Const gColorBlueEarth As Long = 16646420 'RGB(20, 1, 254) Public Const gColorGray As Long = 6579300 'RGB(100,100,100) '------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ' Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p ' send report object, sun center coordinate and radius '------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sub Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p(poReport As Report _ ,pXCenter As Single _ ,pYCenter As Single _ ,pRadiusOrbit As Single _ ,Optional pnColrEarth As Variant = gColorBlueEarth _ ,Optional pnColrAxis As Variant = vbBlack _ ,Optional pnColrOrbit As Variant = gColorGray _ ,Optional pnColrSun As Variant = gColorYellowSun _ ,Optional gColorSunRay As Variant = gColorOrangeRay _ ) '221221 s4p 'Draw a Solstice ' measurements in twips On Error GoTo Proc_Err 'PARAMETERs ' poReport is the Report object ' pXCenter is x-coordinate of sun center ' pYCenter is y-coordinate of sun center ' pRadiusOrbit is orbit radius '(Optional) -- long integer color values ' defined as Variant so they can be null ' pnColrEarth ' pnColrAxis ' pnColrOrbit ' pnColrSun ' gColorSunRay If IsNull(pnColrEarth) Then pnColrEarth = gColorBlueEarth If IsNull(pnColrAxis) Then pnColrAxis = vbBlack If IsNull(pnColrOrbit) Then pnColrOrbit = gColorGray If IsNull(pnColrSun) Then pnColrSun = gColorYellowSun If IsNull(gColorSunRay) Then gColorSunRay = gColorOrangeRay 'variables Dim X As Single,Y As Single _ ,x1 As Single,y1 As Single _ ,x2 As Single,y2 As Single _ ,sgRadiusSun As Single _ ,sgRadiusEarth As Single _ ,sgRadiusAxis As Single _ ,sgAspectOrbit As Single _ ,sgAngleAxis As Single _ ,sgAngle As Single '----------------------------- customize as desired sgRadiusSun = pRadiusOrbit * 0.2 sgRadiusEarth = sgRadiusSun * 0.75 sgRadiusAxis = sgRadiusEarth * 1.4 sgAspectOrbit = 0.4 '----------------------------- sgAngleAxis = (90 + 23.4) / 180 * PI With poReport .ScaleMode = 1 'twips 'orbit .FillStyle = 1 'Transparent .DrawWidth = 4 'pixel poReport.Circle (pXCenter,pYCenter) _ ,pRadiusOrbit,pnColrOrbit,,,sgAspectOrbit .DrawWidth = 1 'pixel 'draw sun rays For sgAngle = 0 To 2 * PI Step PI / 12 x1 = pXCenter + Cos(sgAngle) * pRadiusOrbit * 1.2 y1 = pYCenter - Sin(sgAngle) * pRadiusOrbit * 1.2 poReport.Line (x1,y1)-(pXCenter,pYCenter),gColorOrangeRay Next sgAngle .FillStyle = 0 'Opaque 'sun .FillColor = pnColrSun poReport.Circle (pXCenter,pYCenter) _ ,sgRadiusSun,gColorSunRay 'earth center X = pXCenter - pRadiusOrbit 'axis .DrawWidth = 3 x1 = X + Cos(sgAngleAxis) * sgRadiusAxis y1 = pYCenter - Sin(sgAngleAxis) * sgRadiusAxis sgAngleAxis = sgAngleAxis + PI x2 = X + Cos(sgAngleAxis) * sgRadiusAxis y2 = pYCenter - Sin(sgAngleAxis) * sgRadiusAxis poReport.Line (x1,y1)-(x2,y2),pnColrAxis 'S for South .FontSize = 24 poReport.Print "S" 'N for North .CurrentX = x1 - .TextWidth( "N") .CurrentY = y1 - .TextHeight( "N") poReport.Print "N" 'earth .FillColor = pnColrEarth poReport.Circle (X,pYCenter) _ ,sgRadiusEarth,pnColrEarth 'equator sgAngleAxis = sgAngleAxis - PI / 2 x1 = X + Cos(sgAngleAxis) * sgRadiusEarth y1 = pYCenter - Sin(sgAngleAxis) * sgRadiusEarth x2 = X - Cos(sgAngleAxis) * sgRadiusEarth y2 = pYCenter + Sin(sgAngleAxis) * sgRadiusEarth poReport.Line (x1,y1)-(x2,y2),vbWhite End With Proc_Exit: On Error GoTo 0 Exit Sub Proc_Err: MsgBox Err.Description _ ,, "ERROR " & Err.Number _ & " Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p" Resume Proc_Exit Resume End Sub '*************** Code End *****************************************************
Code behind report to draw the December Solstice with Earth and Sun. Although different colors can be used, they aren't specified, so you see the default colors.
'*************** Code Start CBR *********************************************** ' Purpose : code behind rpt_SolsticeDecember ' calls Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p ' draw Winter Solstice on page (Landscape) ' Author : crystal (strive4peace) ' Code List: www.msaccessgurus.com/code.htm ' This code: https://msaccessgurus.com/VBA/Draw_Solstice.htm ' LICENSE : ' You may freely use and share this code, but not sell it. ' Keep attribution. Mark your changes. Use at your own risk. '------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ' Report_Page '------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Private Sub Report_Page() '221221 crystal 'draw Winter Solstice on a landscape page 'CALLs ' Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p Dim X As Single,Y As Single _ ,sgRadius As Single _ ,dx As Single,dy As Single _ With Me .ScaleMode = 1 'twips 'width and height for drawing dx = .ScaleWidth dy = .ScaleHeight 'X center X = .ScaleLeft + dx / 2 'Y center Y = .ScaleTop + dy / 2 'radius based on X sgRadius = (dx / 2) * 0.85 End With 'Call Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p Call Draw_SolsticeDecember_s4p(Me,X,Y,sgRadius) End Sub '*************** Code End *****************************************************' Code was generated with colors using the free Color Code add-in for Access.
Report Draw Reference for VBA syntax and help for drawing on Access reports.
Yesterday was the winter solstice for me and my friends in the Northern hemisphere, which means that the sun is lowest on the horizon at its highest point, if it even shows! Last night was the longest night after the shortest day, and the first day of winter. Even though the days will get longer for us till the Summer Solstice, we have colder weather coming in the next couple months, so bundle up!
To honor this day, I wrote code in Access to show how Earth is positioned in relationship to the sun. It's not to scale because Earth would just be a dot!
Earth's relationship to the sun is hard-coded, but there could be logic to calculate position based on the day of year.
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