wxTextCtrl maximum length?

birdman · Post by **birdman** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:53 am

On windows with wxWidgets 2.4.2 wxTextCtrl seems to have a maximum length of 30,000 chars - after that, any Append()s just disappear into oblivion. I am trying to use a multiline textctrl as a log window but the log fills up in short bursts that often surpass 30,000 chars.

I can't find a way to set the max length or what-not. A possible solution, since the log goes to a file as well, is to run the textctrl as a queue and shred the oldest when the newest is appended. By selecting the first X characters of the text and deleting it I should be able to append onto the end, correct?

But what I'd REAAAAALLLLLLY like is to just be able to keep writing to the dang thing till my App is done. Any ideas or feedback please lemme know.

myukew · Post by **myukew** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:09 am

use wxTE_RICH as style

Use rich text control under Win32, this allows to have more than 64KB of text in the control even under Win9x. This style is ignored under other platforms.

http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.5.3/ ... wxtextctrl

birdman · Post by **birdman** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:17 pm

use wxTE_RICH as style

God I feel like an a**. I swore I thouroughly scoured the documentation... I guess you miss obvious things at 3am. Thanks!

myukew · Post by **myukew** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:33 pm

no problem, I started learning the stuff like 3 days ago... I read the documentation all day...