[General] character limit

[Chaosy]

My question is simple. Is there some kind of limit on how many characters a string variable can have? Basically I got a huge string that I want to display with floating text. However it breaks 278 characters and 50 words.

edit: made another string, it breaks at 46 words and 263 characters. Does it have to do with the number of allowed 'rows' or something?

 

[DeadZero]

According to the Jass page on Wikipedia, string variables have a limit closer to 1k-2k. I could only find one other thread related to floating text limit, but someone had a problem with it stopping at around 100 characters. Is the variable breaking down, or is it your floating text? Maybe there's some other way you could check if the variable is intact, to see if the problem resides in the floating text and not the variable.

 

[Chaosy]

If I display the string with BJDebugMsg() it is fully displayed. So it seems to be a floating text issue.

 

[DeadZero]

Do something like this:

• Floating Text - Create floating text that reads 0 at (Center of (Entire map)) with Z offset 0.00, using font size 10.00, color (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%), and 0.00% transparency
• Floating Text - Change the lifespan of (Last created floating text) to 0.00 seconds
• Floating Text - Change text of (Last created floating text) to (really long) using font size 10.00

Change "(really long)" to your long string, and the character limit should be removed. (It's setting the lifespan to 0 that allows for this).

(I'm sure you know to clean up leaks and all)

 

[Chaosy]

That is what I am doing. But it just ends randomly.

		call SetTextTagText(this.tag, SubString(this.text,0,this.counter), TextTagSize2Height(12))
		call SetTextTagPos(this.tag, GetRectCenterX(gg_rct_Start), GetRectCenterY(gg_rct_Start), 0)
		call SetTextTagColor(this.tag, 255,255,255, 255)

edit: The substring is not the issue, it doesn't work even if I set 0-999, it still only displays 90% of the string.

 

[edo494]

this is not problem with string, check http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/lab-715/documentation-string-type-240473/ to see more, mainly my find on strings.

This is most likely problem with texttag, where it tries to fit the text into some predefined box and it just is too long so it either cuts the string off, or it doesnt render the remaining, because only so much of the real text tag is rendered and the rest is abandoned

 

[Chaosy]

Meh. The only workaround I can think of is to split up the floating texts into multiple ones. But then I somehow need to know how much the text covers so to speak.