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 <cr...@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 <cr...@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@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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode