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- From: marcel@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher)
- Subject: Re: Maximum window width
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.081502.26786@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:15:02 GMT
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- howard@monitor.com (Howard Brenner) writes:
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- >Is there a maximum width for a window? I am creating a window with a
- >width of 34000 and a height of 1200 and I am getting a DPS context error
- >on the command placewindow (origin of 0,0). The problem does not seem to
- >go away until I bring the width down to about 10000 or so.
-
- Yes there is, in just about the region you describe. Also, what do
- you need that kind of Window for? Even at the lowliest 2 bit/no alpha
- it would take 97 Megabytes. I hope you've upgraded your memory or
- are very, very patient ( "Testing hard drive now..." :-) )
-
- Marcel
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