All the responses about crashing - because lines are too long (exceeding
65K chars or 32K x in line length) or there are too many lines (and so
32,767px of scrollable height is not enough) - strongly indicated that
an overhaul of the standard field object is needed in LC 10, or, more
likely, in LC11.
No matter what a developer or user tries to do with a field, it should
not crash.
When you put your application in customer hands, you have no idea what
they may do. Our application lets researchers open and analyze text
documents. In the context of that analysis, documents more than a few
hundred pages long seemed unlikely to be something that would ever
occur. And even then, those seemed rare. Then a customer contacted us
working on a document that was 1000s - nearly 10,000 pages in length! It
didn't make sense to me, but it dd to them. Now I dread the day when
someone tries a document that is hundreds of thousands of pages (or many
10s of thousands or some kind of data set that is an equivalent) and our
app crashed because field limits where exceeded. No error code we can
trap for, just boom and done.
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