Max number of columns in a datagrid?

[Geoff Canyon]

I just checked, and (LC 8 on a Mac) indeed fields fail beyond a certain
width/character limit/???

This:

on mouseUp
   repeat with i = 1 to 10000
      put char -10 to -1 of ("aaaaaaaaaa" & i & " ")  after x
   end repeat
   put x into fld 1
end mouseUp

results in a field that scrolls right only until it displays about "aa294
aaaaaa295 aaaaaa296 aaaaaa2" So, something like 3,000 characters wide.
Again, something that could be worked around, but basically whether it's a
field or the DG, some sort of virtualized display seems necessary.


On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:31 PM Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:08 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Try the field object.
>>
>
> Not that this couldn't be worked around, but isn't a field limited in the
> width of what it can display? i.e. put a single line 100,000 characters
> long into an un-wrapped field, and the field fails in some way.
>
> gc
>