Cheesed off by 32xxx

[Scott Rossi]

Without knowing exactly what you're trying to accomplish, one way is to display only a few rows of buttons beyond what will fit comfortably on a screen, and when scrolling takes place, "recycle" the rows around to the end (or beginning) with new glyphs applied.

Assuming all the characters are from a single font and you're trying to display glyphs in an organized fashion,  a better way might be to display all the glyphs in a field with extra column and row spacing to essentially form a grid.   This is how I display glyphs from icon fonts, which is more efficient than using thousands of controls on a card. 

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media UX/UI Design

> On Apr 1, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> What a nuisance:
> 
> There I was, merrily churning through the button titles for my Unicode Reference thing
> [ http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29069 ] which needed at least 1600 buttons
> that were 23 pixels deep layered underneath each other.
> 
> What happens?
> 
> At the "Magic Number" of 32xxx I get a "this is not a number" message.
> 
> As a result I ended up restricted to 1400 buttons.
> 
> This is very bad as the Unicode glyph tables are many, and in an ideal world
> I'd like 8703 buttons. But 8703 * 23 = 200169
> 
> That would involve groupig a "stack" of buttons that was 200169 pixels high.
> 
> Would be grateful if anyone knows a way to circumvent the limitation.
> 
> Richmond.
> 
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