How to Display Text Greater than 255 Characters

Keywords: 	 255 characters 256 characters  111:Execution Error Line too long(>255 characters)

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Question:

WB Message boxes and BoxText functions are restricted to 255 characters. How can I display text greater than 255 characters to the user?

Answer:

You can show the file in one of three ways:

1.   Run("notepad.exe","Selected file name") 
   

2. Or maybe - for small files:

      fn="c:\yourfilename"
      fs=FileSize(fn)
   
      bb=BinaryAlloc(fs)
      BinaryRead(bb,fn)
      DaFile=BinaryPeekStr(bb,0,fs)
      BinaryFree(bb)
      DaFile=StrReplace(DaFile,@CRLF,@TAB)
   

   Then use DaFile as your ItemListBox variable.

   Should work OK for files up to about 1000 bytes.

   You can display a larger file size, but if you use a larger file size, for example, 20K, you won't be able to do much else in the program.

3. Use AskFileText to display a file's contents to the user. This requires a response from the user however, so, if you need to, you can auto-answer the AskFileText with another WB script that you launch just before the AskFileText, that waits for that window to appear, and then closees it after a certain period of time.

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Article ID:   W13215

Filename:   Display Text Greater than 255 Chars.txt