Maximum field size
Craig Newman
craig at starfirelighting.com
Thu Jan 19 14:00:20 EST 2023
Guys, (and Jacque)
I made my test with lines of 14 chars. Lots of lines. LC crashes.
Craig
> On Jan 19, 2023, at 10:10 AM, Craig Newman <craig at starfirelighting.com> wrote:
>
> The stack I made to test this became corrupted after a couple of runs. I guess the way to do this is to increase the length until a crash, not decrease.
>
>> On Jan 19, 2023, at 10:09 AM, Craig Newman <craig at starfirelighting.com> wrote:
>>
>> But I assume that there is a value where a field can be loaded and display a large amount of text. It would be simple to find that value if LC didn’t crash each time it was attempted along the way.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2023, at 10:06 AM, Craig Newman <craig at starfirelighting.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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