limit of message

[jhermiz]

Why is there such a WEAK limit in the message field of these forums?

You might as well not bother posting code in the message box and simply attach text.

That kinda sucks...
check out www.sqlteam.com's forums where I have never gotten a message that said "you have exceeded the limit of the message box by 'n' amount of characters please reduce your message'.

To translate that pop up message means..."The db backend for this forum was written in access. Have a nice day"

Please fix it ASAP.

[MartinLiss]

Are you talking about Private Messages?

[jhermiz]

No IM talking about this message I just typed to you...
in the "Reply box"

[Merri]

I guess he is talking about the regular forum posts. I've got that message a few times and the text hasn't been all that long.

[jhermiz]

Exactly what merri said

[jhermiz]

Originally posted by MartinLiss
Are you talking about Private Messages?

What's the backend of this forum?

The field type and size of this field
is it varchar ?
or memo ?

or nvarchar ?

The size in bytes is it only 8000 chars ?

[MartinLiss]

I don't know how it's stored, but the limit is 10,000 characters. In the several years that I've been posting here I don't think I've ever exceeded that limit except for a few times when I copied and pasted some lengthy MSDN stuff so I don't see the need to increase it.

[The Hobo]

I've never exceeded the length, either.

[NoteMe]

I have exceeded the lengthe 10-15 times. 4-5 times it was a tutorial. I don't think they need ot be longer. But it would be nice if it was possible to just make them longer in the tutorial section.

[jhermiz]

This shouldnt even be debated...

If there is a capacity and the database allows for it why not increase? There should not be a single person who has said I've excedded it. Its a programming forum and if people cant post their code you have to resort to uploading the code..which sucks.

Cant we make it longer ?

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by jhermiz
This shouldnt even be debated...

If there is a capacity and the database allows for it why not increase? There should not be a single person who has said I've excedded it. Its a programming forum and if people cant post their code you have to resort to uploading the code..which sucks.

Cant we make it longer ?

You seem a little worked up over nothing...

[jhermiz]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Thats what you think...you must not know me very well

[MartinLiss]

We've gradually increased several limits but no matter how big you make them someone always asks for more. I'm not saying your request is unreasonable but your going to have to accept the current limit.

[jhermiz]

ok

[Electroman]

Just want to add on that if you are posting code that exceeds the limt then you shouldn't be posting it like that, that much code would better be put in a file and attached. I for one wouldn't want to read though that much code. I would prefer it to be attached so I can run it in the IDE and dismiss the irelavent parts .

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by Electroman
Just want to add on that if you are posting code that exceeds the limt then you shouldn't be posting it like that, that much code would better be put in a file and attached. I for one wouldn't want to read though that much code. I would prefer it to be attached so I can run it in the IDE and dismiss the irelavent parts .

Good point. I tried posting something similiar last night, but it came out as mangled jibberish.

[Slaine]

Personally I don't think dissallowing long posts is a bad thing.

I don't enjoy scrolling through pages of code to see the next post - uploading it as a text file is much better - easy on the bandwidth too.

[jhermiz]

Originally posted by Slaine
Personally I don't think dissallowing long posts is a bad thing.

I don't enjoy scrolling through pages of code to see the next post - uploading it as a text file is much better - easy on the bandwidth too.

So you'd rather scroll in the text file

Come on that makes no sense...If I want to post a LONG summary / code / help file I should be able to like I do in other forums. I cant believe there is such a limit on this field ????

[Electroman]

Posted by jhermiz
So you'd rather scroll in the text file

Come on that makes no sense...If I want to post a LONG summary / code / help file I should be able to like I do in other forums. I cant believe there is such a limit on this field ????

It wouldn't normally be a simple txt file though. If it was VBCode then a .frm file and then put it in the IDE and presto, lots nicer to look at and even debug.


The majority or posts that contain loads of code are just because the poster couldn't be bothered to narrow down the bug to find out where about in the code was causing a problem. Doing this is a debug method in itself and if they had done it they would probably not need to post in the first place cos they'll then see its simple once you narrow down the code.


I see this in the Games & Graphics Section where people will post a hurge code segment and can't see why its not working. The problem is people they are giving too much information and not many people will go through all that code. This is quite common when DirectX is envolved .

[dglienna]

i wouldn't like the IDE opening anytime i want to look at a post. if i see something that i can't put my finger on, i copy it *into* the ide and debug/test it. very small percentage. i also like the code formatting. just a bit harder to edit what you type. i usually add the tags only after i save it, and proof-read it.

[Slaine]

Originally posted by jhermiz
So you'd rather scroll in the text file

Without a doubt.

[jhermiz]

Originally posted by Slaine
Without a doubt.

No difference to me

[Merri]

Well, if we'll ever get the articles forum to write articles into, then there will be a slight problem with the length. On some subjects it is very easy to overlap the 10000 characters limit. And you also have to account that the articles might be edited later on with fixes/changes and it would be very annoying if the new text would overlap a bit.