>  >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).


Absolutely excellent!



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