Limit of chars in a field
Dar Scott
dsc at swcp.com
Sat Aug 30 20:32:01 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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