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colortool.exe shrinks window size by one column - every time it is called

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#3,698 opened on Nov 26, 2019

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Hi

I am running colortool.exe in cmd.exe (Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600] Win 8.1 64bit OS) and every time I run it the Window Size reduces by one column (the rows and the Sceen Buffer Size stay the same).

Is this an "off by one" error?

It is important to me as I would like to call colortool from Textadept-curses.exe; once at load and once at quit.

Please accept apologies if this is a known bug.

Kind Regards Gavin

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Look at the colortool source code to find where window width is set and check for off by one errors in the calculation.
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