putting a relative large amount of data in 1 line into a field :^)

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Wed Jun 25 12:11:01 EDT 2003


On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 09:55 AM, wouter wrote:

> It is indeed true that the number of characters in one line shouldn't 
> be larger than uint2 (dopy me ).
> But this doesn't explain why, if the number of characters is still 
> within the limit of one line, they don't all show when copied in 1 
> chunk from the variable to  the field.

Hmm.  The problem seems to be with display, the data seems to be there. 
  This may be a wrapping problem.

> But they do when copied in smaller chunks (as shown by the handlers).

Unless it crashes.

I verified I can make it crash with my char based tests.  The crash may 
have been when I exceeded the line length limit.  This method needs to 
guard against that.

Dar Scott






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