On 3/28/07, Frank Meies - Sun Germany - Development - Software
Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Kirill,
On 03/28/07 13:20, Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
> I actually have two requirements -
> 1. Fix the code in a way that would allow reasonably unlimited paragraph
> sizes. I understand that the amount of code to be reviewed is
> non-trivial, but this limitation seems to affect considerable number of
> our customers (just see how many dups and votes we have).
right, I see that there's a couple of votes for it. But I'm still
curious about the special use case that requires having paragraphs of
more than 2^16 characters.
This issue is not only about paragraphs in the document body text.
Other issues have been dup'ed to this one as well (probably, because
the same string class is being used). One thing that has caused us
trouble for instance is the restriction of notes and info fields to
64kChars (Issue 68340). Another serious limitation which I assume
is caused by the same limited string class is the restriction of
StarBasic strings to 64kChars. This is a restriction that does not
exist in VBA.
In these cases you can't just insert a paragraph break somewhere.
These are hard limits that require considerable programming effort to
work around. We've already spent quite a bit of time (and henceforth
money) on working around the 64k limit in several places.
Yes, I'm sure it'll be painful, but the change is long overdue. A
modern application that is supposed to be a framework for business
applications not just a typewriter should not have 64K limitations
wherever you step. No matter what some people may think, 64K is not
enough for everyone :-)
So you should bite the bullet and move your string class into the 21st century.
Matthias
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