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From: bfinn@foundation (Bill Finnefrock)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problem with window placement
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Date: 27 Nov 90 19:14:00 GMT
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Previously I posted a message about being unable to configure windows with
dimensions greater than MAXSHORT (on a Sun SPARCstation 1). I have since
discovered that my problem is not in configuring the large parent window but
placing the children of the large window at X and Y positions greater than
MAXSHORT.  If I attempt to do this the ConfigureNotify events for both the 
parent and the child report that the window was positioned at negative 
values for any value larger than MAXSHORT


what I am doing is basically as follows:

1) configure the parent window with width + height at MAXINT

2) configure a child of that window at x & y values of 253 & 32797

3) when I receive a ConfigureNotify event for the child the values reported
   back form the server are 253 & -32739

I am using X11R4 with all Xlib calls and no toolkits


Has anybody ever seen behavior like this before? 



thanks in advance
bill
bill_finnefrock.wbst845e@xerox.com