Article View: comp.windows.x
Article #23676Re: how to XDrawLines > MaxRequestSize
From: Paul Martz
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 14:41
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 14:41
14 lines
1230 bytes
1230 bytes
In article <9106121938.AA23986@maui.coral.com>, tomt@maui.coral.COM (Tom Tulinsky) writes: > I hadn't realized that there was a limit to the size of the lists that > the X poly requests like XDrawLines can handle until recently, when I > read Kenton Lee's article 'Behind Curtain X' in June's Unix Review. There are currently some mumblings in the X community about an extension which will provide access to much larger request sizes, so that neither the application nor the API need break apart large requests. The extension is in the pre-proto-stages of development, from what I've heard so far. -- -paul pmartz@dsd.es.com Evans & Sutherland
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1991Jun13.144151.17507@dsd.es.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!orca!undies!pmartzReferences:
<9106121938.AA23986@maui.coral.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!orca!undies!pmartz From: pmartz@undies.dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: how to XDrawLines > MaxRequestSize Keywords: large request extension Message-ID: <1991Jun13.144151.17507@dsd.es.com> Date: 13 Jun 91 14:41:51 GMT References: <9106121938.AA23986@maui.coral.com> Sender: usenet@dsd.es.com Reply-To: pmartz@undies.dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.187.85.56