On May 5, 2012, at 2:11 AM, FlexibleLearning wrote: > The main downside of passing parameters is the engine's limits on total > parameter string length. If too much data is passed, the engine simply > truncates the data to the maximum length it can handle. > > If the amount of data does exceed the engine's parameter-passing limit, then > the data elements have to be iteratively set directly (e.g. set the uValues > of group "Chart1" to [a very large dataset]). I personally find this a more > cumbersome syntax than the keyValue syntax but it does mean there are > limits. For ChartMaker, the limits are about 15,000 data points (depending > on overall string length, of course).
I was not aware of this limit. I don't see it in the limits page of the user guide for LiveCode 5.0.2. I have not had trouble passing very long strings as parameters, though often, if that is likely, I set up the handler to require a referenced variable for speed. Is this a limit in the number of parameters? Is this driven by the maximum length of a line in a field? I'd like to get a better handle on this in my mind, so any clues you have would be good. Dar _______________________________________________ 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
