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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: More than 32k into a TextEdit window?
Message-ID: <1659@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 14 Sep 89 18:27:36 GMT
References: <10417@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <10417@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>How do I get more than 32k into a TextEdit window?  If I can't squeeze it
>all into my TextEdit record, how can I simulate having it all there -
>especially with the scroll bars?  Sample code would be greatly appreciated.

The solution is simple yet astonishing; you don't.

TextEdit can't handle as much as 8k efficiently (it's so SLOOOOOW !!!), and
it's really just a support layer for the dialog manager. Inside Macintosh
is quite right when it says that "TextEdit is NOT a word processor"...
In fact, almost everything in the mac (including the disk cache !) is
sequential lists. EVERYTHING in the toolbox bogs down if you use it too
extensively, but the special case TextEdit is close to unusable.

You're on your own. Don't forget to put in the Script Manager and support
for more-than-one-byte characters in you own code :-)

h+@nada.kth.se
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