I think Semmel, Glenn S wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hello. Under Jess 7.0a4, the TextAreaWriter class has the following > attribute: > > private static final int MAXSIZE = 30000 > > > > In a future release, can this attribute be changed to be either a user > > configurable or made public? We deliver our product with a Jess Console > > Panel that allows users to query the state of the engine. However, the > > users complain about the size of the buffered text (30000 characters ~ 120 > > lines). Too much information scrolls out of the text area (i.e. even with > > the scroll bar, ~120 lines is not enough to maintain all the messages they > > want to see). Thanks. > >
Historically, that was the maximum value because the Windows TextEdit control used by AWT on Windows held only 2^15 characters before silently refusing to accept any more. The new Swing analog of this class inherited this limit for no particular reason; sure, it could be configurable. --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Advanced Software Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------