Limit of chars in a field
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Aug 30 21:24:01 EDT 2003
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!
Bad news: While Rev lets you store up to about 4GB per field, it only
allows 64k in any given line (this also holds true for the sort command).
Good news: Polygon points in Rev are stored with each point on a separate
line, so you should have no trouble storing the points list for even complex
polygons.
But I'm curious: Given the arduousness of editing points from a list, do
they need to be displayed? Might tucking them in a custom property suffice?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site
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