Limit of chars in a field

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sun Aug 31 00:32:01 EDT 2003


On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 11:01 PM, Anthony Kouvousis wrote:

> My application calls for storing in one line the coordinates for a 
> graphic to draw (like
> set the points of grc x to fld "myField"). I was under the impression 
> that the chars
> limit of a fld was way above HCs 30000 limit. Here on a single line we 
> have 937 X 5 =
> 4685 chars and the field can not display them!

You are limited to almost 64K characters in a line.  However, you can 
only correctly display text that is less than about 64K _pixels_ per 
line.

Consider storing information in a custom property or breaking each 
point into a line.

Dar Scott




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