OI system editor line wrapping (OpenInsight Specific)
At 30 NOV 2000 10:53:51AM Tom Savell wrote:
I notice that in the OI System Editor when a line in a record becomes longer than 104 characters, it wraps down to the next line. Hopefully this is just for viewing and the end of the long line is not really truncated and re-inserted as a new line in the record.
First, is my assumption true and the record has not been modified? And second, is there any way of turning off this line-wrap feature? If not, are there alternative editors available to display the records.
Thanks,
Tom Savell
At 30 NOV 2000 11:35AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group</A wrote:
Ours wraps at 1025 and yes it does affect the data.
Are you using a very large font?
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At 30 NOV 2000 06:09PM Tom Savell wrote:
Thanks for your response. I mis-read the column position. I am actually wrapping with 1140 characters. The font is a normal 10-point Courier.
So, the System editor has this problem. How can I get around the problem. We will have strings in a particular data field (i.e. "column") of a data record (i.e. "row") of a data file (i.e. "table") which may have several thousand characters.
You mentioned that YES it does change the data. I assume by moving the truncated piece down to the next field thereby shifting everything down one (or two or three, etc. fields.) If this is true then the OI system editor not only sucks, it is dangerous!
At 30 NOV 2000 06:25PM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
suggest you don't use the system editor.
export to notepad if necessary….
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At 30 NOV 2000 07:09PM Tom Savell wrote:
Well, I certainly agree, I should not use the OI system editor at least with records holding long strings in a field. Are there any other OI issues with long strings?
Thanks
Tom
At 01 DEC 2000 04:21AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Depends on the OS. Size of records editable in system editor varies. Up until latest OICGI big problems with web publishing any large rows. Otherwise fine!
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At 01 DEC 2000 08:43AM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:
Tom ..
I have had a similar problem when trying to initialize long strings in an R/BASIC program. I had to resort to two solutions:
1. Use concatination to build up the variables out of smaller segments and then stuff it into the place it belongs.
2. Store the long string in a record on disk and then read it at run-time to initialize the strings.
You can edit with Notepad and then copy the data to OI andhand-compile the code from the Exec Line..giant PITA.
Cheers
Don Miller
C3 Inc.