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Author Thread: APL+Win crashes with VERY long lines
Paul.Ravitz
APL+Win crashes with VERY long lines
Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006 3:51 PM (EST)

In APL+Win versions 5 and 6 (including the latest 6.4.01), enter the following on one line and press Enter. 

 

a„2047½'*' ª „a ª „a ª „a ª „a ª „a ª „a ª „a ª „a ª '' ª „2046½'*'

 

After both lines have displayed, cursor up to the first line, Press End, then press Del (to attempt to attach the second line to the end of the first).  APL unceremoniously crashes, with no error message.

 

Basically, APL+Win doesn't seem to like it at all if you attempt to type beyond the

16,383th column (¯1+2*14).

 

It's not like I spend time trying to coming up with such gems; this actually occurred for real today, and I lost my active workspace.  The above is just a simplification of what I was actually doing in order to make it easy for you to replicate.  I actually have a tool that displays large objects across the screen on one line.

 

By the way, the reason I didn't simply do „16383½'*' above is that „ has a limit of 2047 chars before it wraps.

 

p


Comments:

Author Thread:
Paul.Ravitz
APL+Win crashes with VERY long lines
Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006 3:57 PM (EST)

For those of you who use the Firebox browser (I do), it's not displaying the quote-quad characters I entered.  To the left of each assignment arrow is supposed to be a quote-quad.

     

Patrick.Parks
APL+Win crashes with VERY long lines
Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006 4:35 PM (EST)
Hi Paul, Were you able to enter the APL characters and line breaks (actually the blank lines between line breaks) by entering this in firefox browser? I can't. I have to enter things via IE (which is a huge pain since I switched to firefox). There are some blank lines in this message but since I'm typing it in firefox it will probably all be packed together into a single paragraph. Pat

     

Paul.Ravitz
APL+Win crashes with VERY long lines
Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:18 PM (EST)
Sorry, no, Patrick. I've learned by now that this web site isn't very Firefox friendly, and to post with IE when entering APL chars or desiring line breaks, since it depends on some sort of ActiveX control. But I read posts with Firefox, and was surprised to see all the quote-quads omitted. Sigh.

     

Patrick.Parks
APL+Win crashes with VERY long lines
Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:34 PM (EST)
Firefox does have an IE add-in that allows you to create IE pages intermixed with your firefox pages. I have not used it but been thinking about it. Might be nicer than cranking up IE as a separate app. Frustrating... isn't it.

     

Paul.Ravitz
APL+Win crashes with VERY long lines
Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:44 PM (EST)
I think you're referring to the IE View extension; I use it. In the right-click context menu you get an additional item "Open Link Target in IE". But it still has to open a separate app (namely IE). But perhaps you're talking about something else? Anyway, yes, frustrating.

     

davin.church
APL+Win crashes with VERY long lines
Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:26 PM (EST)
I use IE View for a while myself with pretty good results.  But I've been trying out IE Tab lately and I like it better in general.  IE Tab puts IE in a FF tab, while IE View opens IE as a completely separate application.  I've had some minor display/behavior problems with IE Tab though (like selecting text in a box and trying to type over it) -- hopefully that will get remedied one day.

     

Support
APL+Win crashes with VERY long lines
Posted: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 6:16 PM (EST)
This is a bug in version 5 and later of APL+Win. 

Thank you for reporting it.

     



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