Robert Purves wrote:

> >Stage 1 :
> >I want to be able to read a plain TEXT file into an Edit Field, and have a
> >scroll bar so that I can look through it. I also want to be able to save the
> >contents back out to a TEXT file. As pure text, note. No Formatting.
> >
> >However, the Edit Field can only handle 32K characters, so :
> >
> >Stage 2 :
> >To be able to do the above for any size of TEXT file.
> >
> >Such a program would be a wonderful "Example", and I would guess everyone
> >would find it useful, sometime.
> >Does anyone have such a program, and if not, does anyone want to have a bash
> >at creating one ?
>
> Since list members have been sluggish in responding to this Very Useful
> Challenge, I have posted my attempted solution at:
>
> <ftp://ftp.futurebasic.org/FutureBasic/dropbox/Scroll_Text_Of_Any_Length.sit>
>
> The complete working source code is a princely 4K download.
>
> It displays a text file of any length (not limited to 32000 characters by
> TextEdit), with live vertical and horizontal scrolling. In one test, it
> successfully displayed a 5 MB file with 200000 lines.
>
> Reports of reproducible bugs would be welcome (well not really, but you
> know what I mean).

Whooee!  Even open the King James Text File!

Joe Wilkins