Number of characters limited in scripts?

[alexbausw]

Hello all,

I have the problem, that i could not enter more than about 4015 characters (incl. space and tab) in the editors script window. Is this a limitation in Lemur 4 itself or in the editor for windows 7?

best regards
Alex

[Macciza]

Hi
Pretty sure the official limit for scripts is 4096, see Changelog in manual, so yes . . .
Time to refactor / encapsulate some of it I think . . .

Cheers
MM

[alexbausw]

Hello Macciza

Thank you for your answer.
So a workaround could be to split code into two scripts and call the second from the first one.

greetings
Alex

[Macciza]

Yes

Look for sections of code that are repeated in different places and move them to a separate script that gets called and fed the necessary parameters . . .
Think more object-oriented / classes etc separating responsibility for different things etc

What are you doing that requires such a large monolithic script?

MM

[Traxus]

Hello Macciza

Thank you for your answer.
So a workaround could be to split code into two scripts and call the second from the first one.

greetings
Alex

Yes, that would work, but every time you say that, god makes a programmer commit suicide. Please think of the other programmers!

You'll do yourself a much bigger favor by taking Macciza's advice and looking for duplicate blocks of code, and breaking them out into functions and so forth.