Is there a defined xpixmap width limit?

Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin manutm007 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 09:53:31 PDT 2011


On 04/22/2011 06:35 PM, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin
> <manutm007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 04/22/2011 04:48 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
>>> Hi Emmanuel,
>>>
>>> Excerpts from Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin's message of 2011-04-22 14:31:04 +0200:
>>>> I've been searching for this for a while: Is there a width and height
>>>> limit for xpixmaps? I'm using GTK and I know GDK pixmaps and windows
>>>> can't be wider than 65535. And I suspect for X, it's 32767.
>>> As the width/height fields in the CreatePixmap request are CARD16s, the highest
>>> value is (2^16)-1 = 65535. This is documented in the X protocol, see
>>> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xproto/x11protocol.pdf (page 56 in the
>>> pdf).
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Michael
>>
>> Thanks Michael, that's what I was looking for. Maybe the results I got
>> from the test come from some specific implementation that's not 100 %
>> fully compliant with the protocol but that's really not that important
>> anyways.
> 
> IIRC there is a sign bug in the wire protocol which halves the actual limit.
> 
> ~ C.
> 

So that's the reason for my results. Thanks.

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Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 at gmail.com>



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