Message Function and Strings Greater than 261 Characters

Keywords: 	 Message 261 262 strings

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Question:

I'm using the Intcontrol(1006 function. I've got an unparsed command line that's more than 261 chars long.

With the following code:

   unparsed=IntControl(10006,0,0,0,0)
   Message(StrLen(unparsed), unparsed)

In Windows 95/98 the variable contents come in OK (it displays more than the 261 chars.)

In Windows NT 4.0, the message statements only displays up to 261 chars. I don't get any error message, but it won't display past that length.

Do you have any idea why the differences between the two operating systems?

Answer:

It's there. Maybe save it to a file and look at it.

It is limitation of the windows message box function. It was not designed for real long strings.

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Article ID:   W14233

Filename:   Message Function and Strings Greater than 261 Chars.txt