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: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:50:56 +0100
At 9:12 PM +0100 2/2/02, 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?
29.3 Kb is the maximum number of characters which a window of Script Editor
can contain.
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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)?
Dividing up the code is not an obvious way.
An obvious way could be to use Smile, a free editor that we make available.
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