Re: [gtk-list] Re: Largest pixmap?

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 mcol@village.uunet.lu wrote:
> 
> from the imlib doc:
> Imlib can rescale an image to any size (limit 32767 x 32767 pixels)
> 
> probably this is only the limit for imlib's internal rendering
> and xpms can be above this size, but don't know.
> 

This is a limitation of X; window/pixmap sizes are stored in a signed
16-bit integer. You can't create one larger than that.

Havoc