[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Physical Screen Size Limiting Scrollable

[Matthew Hall <matthall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> Matthew Hall wrote:
> > Ther's another limit on vertical height which only occurs on Windows, 
> > and which is imposed by the OS, not SWT.  If your scrolled control 
> > goes beyond 32767 (2^15-1) width or height then when you scroll beyond 
> > those edges you will only see the default gray background.  
>
> LOL, now that is what is known as testing for edge conditions!  I can't 
> imagine having a screen that large for anything except maybe an RTS Game 
> map.

I ran across this limit while writing a PrintPreview control, if I 
zoomed in really close and then scrolled down.