INI file row size limitation

[Bahadir M]

Hello Glenn, firstly thank you very much for your program.

I’m creating my own INI configuration and I like to keep the files easily readable, that’s why I’m using the ,\ and |\ character to be able to continue with the parameters of the items.
Example:

# Windows Version and Build OSBUILD2= font-face:Consolas,\ text:\ Edition|\ Build (Version),\ display:\ %productname% (%architecture%)|\ %version% (%display_version%)

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# Windows Version and Build OSBUILD2= font-face:Consolas,\ text:\ Edition|\ Build (Version),\ display:\ %productname% (%architecture%)|\ %version% (%display_version%)

I noticed that DesktopInfo crashes/kills itself if the INI config + “INCLUDE”-files have in total more than ~999 rows of text, regardless if it’s empty, contains a comment or an item.

Can this limitation be removed?

I attached my config, you can run it normally, but try adding more lines inside “desktopinfo.ini”, save it and check if you can replicate my issue.

Cheers
Bahadir

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1. DesktopInfo-Config.zip

[Bahadir M]

Forgot to specify my system:
Windows 11 Professional/Enterprise 22000.1219 (21H2)
(Noticed that DesktopInfo shows wrong version)
Running DesktopInfo Version 3.8.0

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by Bahadir M.

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[Glenn]

But no-one will ever need more than 999 lines in the ini file! 🙂

I can see the code that sets the arbitrary size of the buffer and I can see the code not caring if it goes over. I’ll fix that in the next bug release due hopefully this week or so.

[Bahadir M]

Hahah, you’re right, but some people will always want to get the most functions out of a thing and for me it’s more important to have a clean config in case I need to find and change something easily.

Thanks anyway if you can remove the limitation 👍

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