Cheesed off by 32xxx

[Richmond Mathewson]

One of the ways about knowing what I'm trying to accomplish is to 
download the stack and have a look at it.

Richmond.

On 4/2/17 1:59 am, Scott Rossi via use-livecode wrote:
> 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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