[racket] Limits of init-auto-scrollbars in canvas%

A dump question, may be, and off topic too perhaps, but where are you going
to store 1000000000x1000000000=10^18=1000 tera pixels?
Jos?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at racket-lang.org 
> [mailto:users-bounces at racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Martin Dirichs
> Sent: 18 September 2010 22:57
> To: users at racket-lang.org
> Subject: [racket] Limits of init-auto-scrollbars in canvas%
> 
> In the docs for canvas%
> 
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/canvas_.html
> 
> the limits for function init-auto-scrollbars are given as
> 
>   horiz-pixels : (or/c (integer-in 1 1000000000) false/c)
>   vert-pixels : (or/c (integer-in 1 1000000000) false/c)
> 
> However, if tested with larger values than 10000, the 
> following error message occurs in mred:
> 
> init-auto-scrollbars in canvas%: expected argument of type 
> <exact integer in [1, 10000]>; given 100000
> 
> This seems to be a discrepancy between documentation and 
> implementation. I would much prefer the limits given in the 
> documentation, as a maximum virtual height for a canvas of 
> 10000 is severely limiting its usefulness (at least for me, I 
> am trying to display large tables with it).
> 
> Is there any chance that the limits given in the 
> documentation are also applied in the implementation?
> 
> 
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