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Re: Pixmap limit?

• Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> Apr 21, 2003
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mistertrik at hotmail.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Pixmap limit?


> 
> I'm wondering (all you windows programmers out there) how many pixmaps you 
> can have open at one time? They'll be big, whatever the resolution of the 
> system is (800x600, 1024 x768, etc)

On Win NT/2000/XP number of resources is virtually unlimited. But on Win9x,
the system has limited number of resources and tends to behave strange or
crash when nearing the limit (shared by all applications)

> Or does anyone know how much memory pixmaps take according to their size, or 
> if there are any other limits to how many can be open?

They should take bits_per_pixel * width * height / 8 bytes + some extra.

    Matrin