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From: Mark Hadfield <m.hadfi...@niwa.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: Max X-window width under OS X/X11
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:09:29 +1200
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David Fanning wrote:
> Kenneth Bowman writes:
> 
> 
>>I'm still mildly puzzled about why I can't make a large plain window, 
>>but life is too short to dwell on that for long.  ;-)
> 
> 
> I don't know. In some circles not being allowed to create
> a viewable window larger than your display might be considered
> a Good Thing. Save you having to think about the philosophical
> conundrum of where that stuff *goes* when you write it to
> an area that can't be seen, for one thing. :-)

Off the edge of the screen, of course.

It's metaphors all the way down, I'm afraid.

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Mark Hadfield            "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfi...@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)