Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: the magic number 32637 in Athena form widget Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 07:41:33 GMT References: <1990Oct31.223545.14828@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1990Nov1.180217.10045@Solbourne.COM> Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto Viitanen) Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi In-reply-to: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM's message of 1 Nov 90 18:02:17 GMT >>>>> On 1 Nov 90 18:02:17 GMT, toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) said: Tom> Window dimensions are unsigned, but window coordinates are signed Tom> numbers which means that the largest possible positive coordinate Tom> will be 32637. It basically means you can create a much larger window Tom> than you can effectively use. But why 32637 ? xcalc says 2 ^ 15 -1 is 32767 ? -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland