Limit of chars in a field

Mark Brownell gizmotron at earthlink.net
Sun Aug 31 00:43:31 EDT 2003


On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 10:24  PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
>
> The problem isn't in the fact that there are 4685
> characters in the field, the problem is that they're
> all on a single line, and there's a maximum width in
> terms of pixels that can be displayed -- the data is
> still there, actually.

I thought that I saw this somewhere.
more on this from:
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2003-May/015568.html

There are certain limits to how large various structures can be in 
MetaCard.
Most limits are tied to the machine data types used to store them.  A 
uint1
is 255 (8 bits), a uint2 is 65,535 bytes (16 bits/64KB)

[snip]

Characters per line in a field = uint2 is 65,535 bytes (16 bits/64KB)

Mark




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