Is their a reason for the fleet field to be limited to 20 characters? Last week during the Laser Master Worlds we had a need for a longer fleet field. We were able to get around this by using another field.
Hi Peter,
I’ve never found a fleet that needed more than 20 characters in the past - Just curious what you wanted to put in that was more than 20 chars.
Every field has to have a limit and generally one tries to choose a size that is a compromise between what the user may want to put into it and performance. Bigger fields mean slower operation, increased memory usage and larger files.
Jon
Jon Eskdale
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On 11 December 2013 22:55, pvanmuyden@gmail.com wrote:
Is their a reason for the fleet field to be limited to 20 characters? Last week during the Laser Master Worlds we had a need for a longer fleet field. We were able to get around this by using another field.
Hi Jon,
This was the first time that I needed a longer “Fleet” field. We had 8 fleets and I wanted to use the names of the division as per the NOR. Here are the fleets we had:
Standard Apprentice
Standard Master
Standard Grand Master
Standard Great Grand Master
Radial Apprentice
Radial Master
Radial Grand Master
Radial Great Grand Master
It was not a big problem and I did end up using the “Class” field after discovering the “Fleet” field length limitation.
Peter
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Jon Eskdale jon@sailwave.com wrote:
Hi Peter,
I’ve never found a fleet that needed more than 20 characters in the past - Just curious what you wanted to put in that was more than 20 chars.
Every field has to have a limit and generally one tries to choose a size that is a compromise between what the user may want to put into it and performance. Bigger fields mean slower operation, increased memory usage and larger files.
Jon
Jon Eskdale
Sailwave
03333 443377
07976 709777
On 11 December 2013 22:55, pvanmuyden@gmail.com wrote:
Is their a reason for the fleet field to be limited to 20 characters? Last week during the Laser Master Worlds we had a need for a longer fleet field. We were able to get around this by using another field.
As the file is an XML file presumably that only applies if people fill in more characters? As the data is not padded with white space.
Where I see the biggest issue with large field sizes is on-screen layout when publishing.
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On 2013-12-12 12:39, Jon Eskdale wrote:
Every field has to have a limit and generally one tries to choose a size that is a compromise between what the user may want to put into it and performance. Bigger fields mean slower operation, increased memory usage and larger files.
You are thinking about the html output file - I was referring to the in memory storage and calculations, where you have to allocate memory based on the largest possible size a string can be and when you have to compare them you are comparing larger strings etc etc …
Jon
Jon Eskdale
Sailwave
03333 443377
07976 709777
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On 12 December 2013 21:53, yahoo@wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk wrote:
On 2013-12-12 12:39, Jon Eskdale wrote:
Every field has to have a limit and generally one tries to choose a size that is a compromise between what the user may want to put into it and performance. Bigger fields mean slower operation, increased memory usage and larger files.
As the file is an XML file presumably that only applies if people fill in more characters? As the data is not padded with white space.
Where I see the biggest issue with large field sizes is on-screen layout when publishing.