But then you are creating giant local variables with loads of text, which can't be a good thing... though it does solve the limitation issue.
Jim Kass Web Developer -- Forestweb: The Source for Industry Intelligence Best Content -- Most Relevant -- Best Delivery http://www.forestweb.com (310) 553 - 0008 -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Bohmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: File Action Limitations Anyone? Editing text in the file action window isn't nearly as nice as editing in a Results HTML action, for a lot of reasons. I assign the file contents to a variable in a Results HTML action and then reference the variable in the file contents window. - Jeff >Using WinXP, and Studio v. 5.0, I've come across a limitation in the amount >of text that you can put into the file action window. I don't know the >exact character limitation, but it will cut off anything pasted larger than >a certain amount of characters. After that, you can't add to the text in >the file action, or EVEN do searches and replaces if it would makes things >larger. > >Stranger still, if you do a search/replace once you've reached the character >capacity, rather than replacing just the word, it will replace characters >around the word, not just the word so that the replace won't fail, and the >character count remains the same (but that is of course NOT what you want it >to do, and you have to be careful to CHECK that your search/replace didn't >increase the amount of characters beyond the limit). > >Anyone experienced this, is there another version out there of Studio that >is more stable - my studio still crashes frequently, and the file action >limitation requires me to make multiple write/append/append actions for >files with lots of content. > >Any help is appreciated. > >Thanks. > > >Jim Kass >Web Developer > >-- >Forestweb: The Source for Industry Intelligence >Best Content -- Most Relevant -- Best Delivery >http://www.forestweb.com >(310) 553 - 0008 -- Jeffrey Bohmer VisionLink, Inc. _________________________________ 303.402.0170 www.visionlink.org _________________________________ People. Tools. Change. Community. ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
