Re: There's a length limit to AppleScripts (AS Editor 1.7)?
Re: There's a length limit to AppleScripts (AS Editor 1.7)?
- Subject: Re: There's a length limit to AppleScripts (AS Editor 1.7)?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 13:03:09 -0800
On 2/2/02 12:12 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Just went to add another bit of code to my browser-cache cleaner script (for
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NetScape 6.2.1) and received the following error on trying to paste the code
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into the existing script:
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Could not insert text because the text would be longer than its maximum
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possible length.
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Say what?
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Does anyone know if this is a document line length limit or a character limit?
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Is there an obvious way around it (such as dividing up the code into multiple
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scripts and then having a master script run them)?
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It's the Script Editor's limit for text source of a script: 32K approx.
(somewhat less because of other resource elements that need some of these
bytes). Use a better script editor without the 32K limit. Try Smile, which
is free.
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Paul Berkowitz