Guys, (and Jacque) I made my test with lines of 14 chars. Lots of lines. LC crashes.
Craig > On Jan 19, 2023, at 10:10 AM, Craig Newman <cr...@starfirelighting.com> wrote: > > The stack I made to test this became corrupted after a couple of runs. I > guess the way to do this is to increase the length until a crash, not > decrease. > >> On Jan 19, 2023, at 10:09 AM, Craig Newman <cr...@starfirelighting.com> >> wrote: >> >> But I assume that there is a value where a field can be loaded and display a >> large amount of text. It would be simple to find that value if LC didn’t >> crash each time it was attempted along the way. >> >> Craig >> >>> On Jan 19, 2023, at 10:06 AM, Craig Newman <cr...@starfirelighting.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> David. >>> >>> You want to display 1.39 GB in a field? Will it scroll? >>> >>> I made a quick test stack that created a variable with a length of 1.4 GB. >>> No problem. >>> >>> But when I tried to put that variable into a field, LC crashed. When I >>> tried to put 140 MB into a field, same crash. I did not continue to reduce >>> the length of that variable until the field could be loaded. >>> >>> Craig >>> >>>> On Jan 18, 2023, at 7:46 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode >>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I thought the theoretical limit was 4GB (32bits of characters) but I may >>>> be wrong or there may be practical limits below that threshold. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 1/18/2023 7:29 PM, David Epstein via use-livecode wrote: >>>>> How many rows or columns or characters can reasonably be displayed in a >>>>> LiveCode field? A 1.39 GB text file seems pretty clearly to surpass the >>>>> limit, but how much do I need to subdivide it? >>>>> >>>>> David Epstein >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>>> subscription preferences: >>>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
