strange pulldown menus

[Tariel Gogoberidze]

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:22:57 Klaus Major wrote:

> on mouseUp
> repeat with i = 1 to 1500
> put "a very long line, you know, and i mean it, really..." && i
> & CR after neu
> end repeat
> delete char -1 of neu
> put neu into btn 1
> end mouseUp

neu = 85,892 chars (see below)

> 
> Only 359 correct lines are actually in the pulldown button and a line
> 360 with a single and lonely "a" in it, but not more lines!????
> 
> Does also scroll correctly, but what gives???
> Already sent it to Mark...
> It is very nice to have someone like Mark now! ;-)



Tue, 14 Jun 2005  Scott Rossi wrote:

> Confirmed on my end (OSX).  And I guess the weird "menu button contents
> greater than x number of lines" bug is screwing up the Go pulldown menu as
> well.  Bummer.

Sorry for late comment, I'm just catching up with digest, but it's not a
bug, it's characters in a button limit of uint2 = 65,535 bytes (16 bits/64
KB).

Always been this way and of course it would be great if Mark would change
that

best
Tariel