strange pulldown menus

[Richard Gaskin]

Tariel Gogoberidze wrote:
> Recently, 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).
>>
>>Nope, it's a bug.  It affects menus that span more than roughly 30 items or
>>so (not sure of the exact number).  Many other folks have confirmed it as
>>well.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Scott Rossi
> 
> 
> Interesting. I do know for sure that because of uint2 limit, buttons can't
> hold and thus display (if it's style is "option" or "pulldown") more than
> 65,535 chars.
> 
> That was the case in the example script that Klaus posted.
> 
> However, I can't replicate "greater than x number of lines"  bug in pulldown
> menu.
> 
> In this script (stack with just two buttons)
> 
> on mouseUp
>   repeat with j=1 to 300
>     put "on handler"&j&cr&"put 2+2 into tCount"&cr&\
>         "end handler"&j& cr &cr after tScriptSample
>   end repeat
>   set the script of button 2 to tScriptSample
>   edit script of button 2
> end mouseUp
> 
> The "Go" pulldown menu in the script of button 2 shows all 300 lines on OS
> 10.3.8 and on OS 9.
> 
> I must be missing something here and I'm very curious to replicate this bug.

I think it's a Tiger thang.  I see it by just editing libURL....


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