Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-07 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
We can just send a man to mars. Same deal. :-) Bob S On Oct 6, 2020, at 6:08 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: So "just" changing from 32k to 64k isn't as easy as putting the word "just" in front of it might make it seem. :)

Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
ia use-livecode Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2020 2:50 PM To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com Cc: Richard Gaskin Subject: Re: Canvas Limited to 32767 Glad it's not the funky mobile field workaround. That's such a horrible experience for developers that even the act of documenting it should have been a

RE: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2020 2:50 PM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Cc: Richard Gaskin Subject: Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

RE: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Cc: Paul Dupuis Subject: Re: Canvas Limited to 32767 You would think with 32K px at 72px/inch being like 450 inches that the 32K limit would not be an issue, but I have run into it as well I have written a custom graph (like a bar graph for example sake

Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Glad it's not the funky mobile field workaround. That's such a horrible experience for developers that even the act of documenting it should have been a red flag to go back and refine the field buffering for the few cases where that put-it-in-a-group recommendation is actually needed. In

Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
.com Cc: Richard Gaskin Subject: Re: Canvas Limited to 32767 Ralph DiMola wrote: > I just ran head first into this. Could someone explain why other than > moving from an int16 to an int32 this is such a challenge? This should > have been addressed during the refactoring of the engine. I

RE: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
ard Gaskin Subject: Re: Canvas Limited to 32767 Ralph DiMola wrote: > I just ran head first into this. Could someone explain why other than > moving from an int16 to an int32 this is such a challenge? This should > have been addressed during the refactoring of the engine. Is this f

Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Ralph DiMola wrote: > I just ran head first into this. Could someone explain why other than > moving from an int16 to an int32 this is such a challenge? This should > have been addressed during the refactoring of the engine. Is this for the weird recommended mobile workaround of putting a text