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character string length

Short and simple - maximum length of a character string in labVIEW 5.1

a) 125
b) 256
c) variable
d) Nobody knows where it starts and where it goes

We are attempting to create a large dialog box and are unable to create
a message over 256 characters. Seems like a reasonabel limit and yet
it also seems like we should be able to modify the max string length.
any thoughts? M. Hubbard
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> We are attempting to create a large dialog box and are unable to create
> a message over 256 characters. Seems like a reasonabel limit and yet
> it also seems like we should be able to modify the max string length.

You can certainly have more than 256 characters; I generate character
strings that are displayed in string indicators that run to several hundred
lines long.

How are you creating the dialog box? If you use the builtin dialog box
function or you go out to the OS API to generate your dialog box directly
then you may hit such a problem, since you're not only using Labview string
indicators and controls, but if you're making a popup VI to act as a dialog
bo
x there shouldn' t be.
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