OpenEuphoria

Re: Win32 64k and Hash algorithm

• Posted by Johnny Kinsey <jkinsey at BELLSOUTH.NET> Dec 27, 1998
• 430 views

Hi all,
Actually NT has this same problem.  Like you said its the win32 API it's not
the OS.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
> [mailto:EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On Behalf Of Daniel Berstein
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 1998 6:29 PM
> To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: Win32 64k and Hash algorithm
>
>
> At 06:26 p.m. 24-12-98 , you wrote:
> >Win32 64k:
> >I've noticed that a lot of Win32 Euphoria programs can't handle files
> >above 64k.  For example, a simple text editor will crash or
> freeze if a
> >file larger than 64k is loaded.  I though Euphoria did away
> with the 64k
> >and 640k barriers... is this a Windows problem, a
> programming oversight
> >(referring to the Win32 programmer, not the Euphoria interpreter), or
> >maybe me just jumping to conclusions?
>
> The limitation is on Win32 API. Edit text controls can only
> hold 64K of
> data. I think NT 4.0 doesn't have that limit. There are
> tricky ways to over
> pass that limit: load only chuncks of data needed to be displayed.
> You can also use the RichText edit control (RTF), but that is far more
> complex than a simle edit box.
>
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel   Berstein
>         daber at pair.com
>