Re: gdk_draw_segments & gdk_draw_lines question ...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Andrew P. Lentvorski" <andrewl@deliverator.io.com> writes:

> I noticed in trying to track down a bug in a program of mine that
> gdk_draw_segments and gdk_draw_lines accept an unlimited number of
> segments/points.  However, the XDrawSegments and XDrawLines calls
> have a server dependent limitation in the documentation that I have
> (XLib Reference Manual -- Volume 2 -- O'Reilly -- Third Edition).
> 
> Has this changed in X11R5.4 or something? 

There are no limitations documented in the X11R6.3 docs,
as far as I can see. (There never was a R5.4, so I'm
guessing you mean 6.4)

>  Or are the limitations
> still there and nobody has tripped over them? (I find this hard to
> believe)  Should I create a set of Gdk patches to cover this case
> or should it just be left up to the client?

How can GDK cover this case if the limitation is server
dependent? Is it 5, 100, 10000....?
 
                                        Owen