Maximum field size

[Ralph DiMola]

David,

I believe the field limit for X and Y is 32767 pixels. Or is it 65535? 32767
sticks in my head. I have run into this limit a few times and had to chunk
the data in/out the field as the user scrolls. As Craig noted variables
don't have this limit.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net

-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Craig Newman via use-livecode
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2023 10:07 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Craig Newman
Subject: Re: Maximum field size

David.

You want to display 1.39 GB in a field? Will it scroll?

I made a quick test stack that created a variable with a length of 1.4 GB.
No problem.

But when I tried to put that variable into a field, LC crashed. When I tried
to put 140 MB into a field, same crash. I did not continue to reduce the
length of that variable until the field could be loaded.

Craig

> On Jan 18, 2023, at 7:46 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought the theoretical limit was 4GB (32bits of characters) but I may
be wrong or there may be practical limits below that threshold.
> 
> 
> On 1/18/2023 7:29 PM, David Epstein via use-livecode wrote:
>> How many rows or columns or characters can reasonably be displayed in a
LiveCode field?  A 1.39 GB text file seems pretty clearly to surpass the
limit, but how much do I need to subdivide it?
>> 
>> David Epstein
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