Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!software.ORG!marshall From: marshall@software.ORG (Eric Marshall) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: X11 inconsistency question Message-ID: <8712180210.AA29937@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Date: 17 Dec 87 11:45:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 17 Why is it that the components of the XPoint struct are shorts, the x and y values taken as parameters to Xlib calls are int's, and the height and width taken by Xlib calls are unsigned ints (especially why unsigned)? Why is there not a single object type to reflect the display size? Thanks in advance. Eric Marshall Software Productivity Consortium 1880 North Campus Commons Drive Reston, VA 22091 (703) 391-1838 CSNET: marshall@software.org ARPANET: marshall%software.org@relay.cs.net OR @relay.cs.net:marshall@software.org