Limits on Button Text

[Richard Gaskin]

Rob Cozens wrote:

> I needed a place to store data passed to a dialog stack, and, being a
> lazy foole, decided to put the data into the text of an unrelated
> existing button rather than create a new control or variable.
> 
> What I found was 'set the text of button "Textholder" to rawData' put
> only 39,667 of the 105,203 characters in rawData into the button
> text.  When I added a field and put rawData into it I got all 105,203
> characters.

Buttons contents as limited to 35,667, while a field can hold about 4GB.

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