Is it (width, height) or (height, width)?

Is there a conven开发者_JAVA技巧tion for the order of (height, width) in function arguments or when displaying dimensions?

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I don't know a huge number of languages, but what I have used go with (width, height). It's more fitting along the lines of (x, y) coordinates.

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I'd say (width, height) is overwhelmingly more common. It never hurts to make it explicit though (through argument naming, etc)

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I don’t know if there is a convention elsewhere but personally I always use the convention used by graphics (usually even outside of computing, e.g. in photography): width before height.

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The (width, height) seems to be more common all around.

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it is exactly width-height

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In the door and up the stairs. That's the mnemonic I was taught for map co-ordinates.

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Display resolution is also normally quoted in "width × height".

Wikipedia link to Display Resolution