The revMenuBar

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Apr 30 11:50:29 EDT 2012


Cal Horner wrote:

> If you have ever taken a little wander with the  Property inspector you will
> see that the max width and max height can be 65535!
>
> What could be the possible reason for the attributes to be set that large?

While the largest single monitor available is still < 4000 px, the 
binary representation for 4k takes as much space as for values up to 
65535 (2 bytes), so consider it future-proofing with no additional 
overhead. :)

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