Character length limit in fields?

[Garrett Hylltun]

On Aug 10, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Aug 10, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Garrett Hylltun wrote:
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>> What is the character length limit in fields in Rev 2.6.1 on OS X,  
>> Linux and Windows?
>
> The number of characters is bounded memory and processor  
> addressing, so is effectively larger than what you need.  The  
> number of characters per line is limited to about 64K.  That is  
> found from the limits documentation.  The number of pixels per line  
> after any wrapping is limited to about 32K, even if the field is  
> not that wide.  The last one might be old; I haven't checked that  
> on 2.6.1.  It might turn out that the 64K limit per line assumes 8- 
> bit characters and might be less for Unicode.
>
> Is that what you are looking for?

Yes yes, thanks.. I needed per line and should have been more clear  
on that.  I didn't realize there was a section in the docs on the  
limits.  I was looking in the wrong place of course, checking the  
objects section of the docs to see it noted the limits.

Thanks a bunch Dar,
-Garrett