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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: QuickDraw coordinate limits ?
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.020730.16833@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 02:07:30 GMT
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In article <1990Oct8.175524.25056@astro.uucp> james@astro.uucp (James McCartney) writes:
>
>    I've noticed that QuickDraw often fails when coordinates are
>near or greater than 16000. What are the bounds within which
>Quickdraw is guaranteed to work? In particular I'm trying to get 
>FrameArc to draw a circular arc of radius 702 about a center of 
>(14977,14965) at an angle of 91 and arclength 84. It fails to
>complete the arc. Note that I am not talking about gaps in elipses 
>here, this is a circular arc. 
>    You may wonder who needs to draw at such large coordinates. 
>There are reasons...

QD.nonbuggyrect = (-16384, -16384, 16383, 16383)
We want our MSB back :-)


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