#316 Long lines hang Windows 98 SE

[Piotr Fusik]

Try a file of 9000 characters. You can generate it this
way:
perl -e "print 1x9000" > aaa
When this file is opened in SciTE, the characters are
not visible at all.
Pressing Ctrl+Plus twice hangs the OS: even
Ctrl+Alt+Del does not work.
It all works fine on Windows XP.

[Neil Hodgson]

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Windows 9x and drivers are limited in the length of text
they can handle in a call both in terms of characters and
pixels as Windows 9x uses 16 bit graphics coordinates. It
may be possible to change the code to process the text in
segments but this is made more complex by different
character encodings, dead accents and ligatures. The problem
will not occur when displaying most source code as source
code will switch between styles for each lexeme and thus
naturally segment the text.
I won't be working on this in the near future.

[Neil Hodgson]

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Long text may now be drawn in segments. Try to reproduce
with current version.

[Piotr Fusik]

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Tried 1.69 and it's same as before: characters initially
not visible and OS crash after increasing font size.

[Neil Hodgson]

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More segmentation changes in 1.74 so may work now.

[Piotr Fusik]

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1.74 works fine!