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From: caron@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ilan G. Caron)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XDrawPoints question
Message-ID: <10561@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Jul 89 04:30:13 GMT
Sender: Ilan G. Caron <caron@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
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I'm new to this bboard and to X programming (so if this question's
been asked 9000 times already...)

I'm using X11 (I don't know what release - how do I work that out?) on
a Decstation 3100 (Ultrix Worksystem V2.0 + Multicast 1.1 (Rev. 7) -
whatever that means).

It turns that in the following call, if npoints > ~15000 then I get
an X runtime error (bad request length or something akin).

  XDrawPoints(display, drawable, gc, points, npoints, mode);

(the O'Reilly book declares npoints as an int).

Is there any rhyme or reason to this (or is it a known bug)?

thanks,

--ilan
caron@polya.stanford.edu