Re: New software release: Typer

The following bytes were arranged on 24 Jan 2011 by Ron :

OK, there seems to be a 128 character limit when using a !Zap TW.
!Edit TW performs OK by the look so far. I haven't looked for a
possible larger limit though.

Large text files work well in !Zap Text but !Edit loses and muddles
a percentage of characters

Ah, I know this problem - and for once it's not my fault!

I ran into it when developing a TaskWindow-based text adventure system a
few years back. Back then I came to the conclusion that the above
mentioned loss and muddling of every 128th character was a bug exclusive
to pre-4.67 or so versions of StrongED, but apparently Edit suffers from
it as well, and there it hasn't been fixed. Zap appears to work around
the problem by forbidding strings greater than 128 chars.

And it's not a Typer issue - it arises when inserting more than 128
bytes into the buffer by any means, including by passing a long string
to OS_Write0 (which is how I tripped it).

I've just tried pasting a ridiculously long string into a
StrongED-controlled TaskWindow, and it reproduced perfectly.

So, in conclusion, Zap and Edit are crap and you should use StrongED
instead. ;-P

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