How to Display Text Greater than 255 Characters

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

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

You can show the file in one of three ways:

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

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.
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.

Article ID:   W13215

Filename:   Display Text Greater than 255 Chars.txt

File Created: 1999:04:15:16:52:32

Last Updated: 1999:04:15:16:52:32