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VRI_desiredSize</CODE>
 field contains the ruler's idea of its ideal thickness. By default, this is set so that the ruler will have room to draw its numbers and tick marks normally; if you will be subclassing the VisRuler to add more gadgetry, you may wish to use a different value here.</P>
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