What's The Limitation To ... ?

[SlimShady]

I have some questions I would like to have answered.

What's the maximum filesize of a textfile that can be loaded?

How many lines is the limit for a textfile that can be loaded?

And how many characters per line is the limit?

How many characters (as a string) can a variable have?

I mean: how many characters (as a string) can you assign to a variable?

Thank you very much.

PS. There's no General or Questions forum, that's why I posted here.

Edited May 7, 2004 by SlimShady

[ezzetabi]

What's the maximum filesize of a textfile that can be loaded?

A variable can be at most 2,147,483,647 characters

How many lines is the limit for a textfile that can be loaded?

Lines are just a special char (@lf ,@cr or @crlf) so it do not count diffently. Just every end of line count as a char (or 2 if you are using the DOS @crlf )

And how many characters per line is the limit?

See above.

How many characters (as a string) can a variable have?

2,147,483,647

I mean: how many characters (as a string) can you assign to a variable?

2,147,483,647

Btw, in the FAQ of the help file there is a question "What are the current technical limits of AutoIt v3?" that may answer you more.

Edited May 7, 2004 by ezzetabi

[SlimShady]

How many characters can fit in a MsgBox?

[Jon]

How many characters can fit in a MsgBox?

The MsgBox function is a simple wrapper for the API MessageBox function - the API docs don't indicate any limit...

[this-is-me]

The limit reaches beyond what can actually fit on the screen. I tried.

[SlimShady]

Allright. Thanks, that's very helpful.

[SlimShady]

Two things this time:

1. How many GUI dialogs can we create in one script?

2. How many GUI controls can we create in one script? (assume none will be deleted)

[CyberSlug]

1. Might depend on system resources, but I got to 262 GUI windows in one script...

2. Approx 4094 controls. Highest index is 4096, and the lowest is currently 3.

And it appears that each GUI can contain the max number of controls.....

;COUNT CONTROLS

GuiCreate("CountMaxControls")
Dim $i = 1
$firstID = GuiCtrlCreateButton("foo", 10, 10)
While GuiCtrlCreateButton("foo", 10, 10, 100, 100)
   $i = $i + 1
   ToolTip($i, 0, 0)
Wend
MsgBox(4096,"", $i - $firstID + 1)


; COUNT WINDOWS
Dim $i = 0
While Not @error 
   $i = $i + 1
   ToolTip($i, 0, 0)
   GuiCreate("CountMaxControls")
Wend
MsgBox(4096,"", $i)

[SlimShady]

Perfect.

Thansk for the info.