One more thing: I should add that limiting the number of displayed records to 1000 works fine, so I could fix the problem by using a paging arrangement.
D. On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Daniel Baum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Here are some observations from my first investigations of what is going > on: > > - The original DIM statement is no_of_fields-1, no_of_records,20. This > results in "Dimensional overflow , you can't be serious!". We have > obviously hit some kind of internal limit. > > - Reducing the string length parameter to 10 no longer produces an error, > but does produce garbled output in the table. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/d2dirro7w7eddxl/garbled.jpg?dl=0 > > - Reducing the string length to 8 seems to work properly. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/ai5lrju0xba74cw/OK.jpg?dl=0 > > I'm not sure what's going on here. It seems to be both an array size > limit, which produces the first result, and a possible problem in EasyPtr > itself, which produces the second one. > > Thanks, > > D. > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Bob Spelten via Ql-Users < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Op Sat, 09 Sep 2017 15:06:06 +0200 schreef Daniel Baum via Ql-Users < >> [email protected]>: >> >> Hi all, >>> >>> Latest pictures. >>> >>> Qbase is now rescalable. It starts at 512x256: >>> >>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/exexw4s5ppexyi4/qbaseTab512x256.jpg?dl=0 >>> >>> and can get as big as you want: >>> >>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/o9yi56lqms4ppg3/qbaseTabBig.jpg?dl=0 >>> >>> These pictures show the automatic proportional column width in the >>> tabular >>> view, which has actually always worked, but was less than obvious until >>> now. >>> >>> Getting there... >>> >>> Looking good. >> >> I played with the current version as found in BP143 and I did get a Qlib >> error when hitting the Tabulate button. >> I must admit it was a big database of over 3000 records and 6 fields, >> with one of 500 characters. >> Qbase probably tried to get them all in one array for the menu items. >> The big field could of course be cut to the visible column width. >> >> "Qlib error 16, array too big" suggests there are too many elements. >> A dimensions check would be nice here, so the Tab action can be aborted >> with a warning, before the program crashes. >> (See sections 6.4 & 8.8 of the Qlib 3.3 manual) >> >> Bob >> >> -- >> The BSJR QL software site at: "http://members.upc.nl/b.spelten/ql/"; >> _______________________________________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
