Overusing custom properties

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Sun Oct 8 07:57:13 EDT 2006


Hi Shari,

> Is there any danger in storing large quantities of data in custom  
> properties?  For what I'm doing, storing the info in separate  
> fields would be high maintenance.
>
> Having one field with several hundred custom properties, each  
> property containing 2-3 pages of data, is much easier.
>
> Is there any gotcha with this?

don't worry, check the MC "Help index" for "Limits"!

Excerpt:
Custom properties per object = uint4 = about 4 GB!

Should be sufficient even for extraordinary needs :-)

> Shari
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Best from germany

Klaus Major
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