April 1, 200620 yr Calling MGellis... I finally snooped into what you were seeing with blank lines for ship entries in the SE with recent versions of the HCDB. The deal is that 16-bit list boxes (the scrolling list of units) can show a maximum of 8192 items (we can only have 2048 items so we don't hit that limit) or 65536 characters of information in the entire list box. It is the 65536 character limit we hit, when the SE gets there, the rest of the lines after 65536 characters are blank. Simple math shows that to fit the max possible number of entries from the game (2048), each entry in the list box for the Platform Display must be limited to 32 characters max. I have sent AGSI an e-mail about this but if you would file a formal bug report with them it would be appreciated.
April 5, 200620 yr Calling MGellis... I finally snooped into what you were seeing with blank lines for ship entries in the SE with recent versions of the HCDB. The deal is that 16-bit list boxes (the scrolling list of units) can show a maximum of 8192 items (we can only have 2048 items so we don't hit that limit) or 65536 characters of information in the entire list box. It is the 65536 character limit we hit, when the SE gets there, the rest of the lines after 65536 characters are blank. Simple math shows that to fit the max possible number of entries from the game (2048), each entry in the list box for the Platform Display must be limited to 32 characters max. I have sent AGSI an e-mail about this but if you would file a formal bug report with them it would be appreciated. Tony, Thanks. Fortunately, you can still see the ships, you just can't see them in the "menu listing" and that means you have to cycle through the list using the Next or Previous buttons. So it is a bit of a nuissance, and I'll be glad if it can be fixed, but it's not critical. I'll send the bug report. Mark
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