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From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Does it have to do with 16-bit ints, or with that funky error that
> also keeps the stage width from going past 4095 pixels?

Dunno why that limit is there, but that's the upper bound of a 12-bit
unsigned integer. It may be that something uses the high four bits of the
16-bit integer to represent something else. That technique is quite common
at the hardware level, and used to be more common in software, but not so
much these days. It's probably a bit of legacy code, from the days when
no-one could imagine a monitor bigger than 1024 pixels, and 640K was enough
for anyone ;-)

- Robert

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