Re: [pygame] is there any limit of surface size?

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Mallett wrote:
> On 4/11/08, Thiago Chaves <shundread@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Is that:
> >  * The size of a single dimension, meaning that you can at most get a
> >  surface of 16384 pixels per 16384 pixels (given that you have enough
> >  memory to do so)?
> >  * The total area of the image, meaning that you shouldn't be able to
> >  instantiate images bigger than 128 pixels per 128 pixels?
> >  * The total memory used to store the image, in which case, are we
> >  talking about bits, bytes, kilobytes, kibibytes (=P), megabytes or
> >  what?
> >     
> I'm not sure which.
> In my Mandelbrot Set Program, I tried to make an image twice the
> dimensions of the screen shot, but was unsuccessful, as it was too
> big.  Short answer, "yes"
>   
SDL stores surface pitch, width * bytes-per-pixel, in an unsigned 16 bit 
int. Surface height is a signed 32 bit integer.

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Lenard Lindstrom
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