Cheesed off by 32xxx

[panagiotis merakos]

Hi Richmond,

I think what you are trying to achieve is described in this report:

http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18704

As suggested, it is probably better to use a DataGrid in this case.

Best,
Panos
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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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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