Edit Box Problem

[Amit Sebiz]

Hi,

I am facing a problem regarding limit of text in edit box. I actually need a text box box which can handle text in the range of 2,500,000 characters.
I am able to achieve this in winXp, win2k but on win9x. my
application fails and limit goes down to 9,000 characters only.
I tried Microsoft Rich TextBox also but it seems to crash my application giving something like stack overflow. Can anyone figure out the problem.
I need the solution very urgently.

thnx in advance,
Amit

[NigelQ]

See EM_LIMITTEXT and EM_EXLIMITTEXT

You could be hitting a hard limit in Windows 95 with the edit control (32K for single line, 64K for multiline).

Rich edit controls default to 64K, but can be forced beyond this.

Trying to handle 2+MB in a control in Win95 might be painful. If there are other ways to provide the functionality you need, this might be preferable.

It is possible, however, that the rich edit control may work for you.

Crashing may occur with Rich Edit controls if you don't call AfxInitRichEdit first. This is typically called in your InitInstance.

Hope this helps,

- Nigel