TMemo capacity limitation

[lucas]

hello one and all,

i would simply like to raise a very old bug. TMemo has a limit on the
capacity of the text in which it can hold. with the same exact
executable, it seems that this bug is not raised under NT, but only
under 95. i am not sure about 98.

i also believe that this bug is still present under d5. if so can it be
fixed for d6, which is now in beta. what do you think and what is
possible to fix this. thank you and have a nice day.
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lucas
mailto:lu...@iquanta.com

[Martin Waldenburg]

Hi!

> i would simply like to raise a very old bug. TMemo has a limit on the

> capacity ........

It's not a bug but a M$ feature.
Under Win95/98 it's a 16 Bit control
like any common control.

Martin

[Rene Tschaggelar]

TMemo is identical to the notepad of the operating system.
Win95 is limited to 32k or 64k, whereas WinNT has no limits.

Rene
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Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com

[Mike Orriss (TeamB)]

In article <393E66ED...@iquanta.com>, Lucas wrote:
> i also believe that this bug is still present under d5. if so can it be
> fixed for d6, which is now in beta. what do you think and what is
> possible to fix this
>

The limit is down to the operating system, not Delphi.

An alternative is to use TRichEDit instead (with PlainText set to True).

Mike Orriss (TeamB)
(Unless stated otherwise, my replies relate to Delphi 4.03/5.00)
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[Davie]

Win 95/98 has a limit of about 32K and with NT, it not limited. Since it's
part of the "Common Controls" dll, yuou are limited to what the operating
system says you are limited to. TListView and TListBox and others are also
common controls.

Davie