topic Re: GDL Text I/O Add-on bug? in Libraries & objects

GDL Text I/O Add-on bug?

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:34:14 GMT

I had random crashes while trying to use the GDL Text I/O -addon with a custom object. The object would read a tab separated text file into three variables declared in the script.

It turns out the addon would actually read in a string from column that exceeded the max number of chars defined in GDL specs. I'm suspecting this was what made ArchiCAD crash. As soon as I limited the column string length into 255 (the columns are exported from excel), the crashing stopped.

I was even able to print out the string length within the GDL using STRLEN(), and it really showed a string length bigger than 255. (314 I think, to be specific).

I'm using ArchiCAD 15 FIN Full 4056 with Windows 7.

Re: GDL Text I/O Add-on bug?

Ben Cohen — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:51:02 GMT

Hi Samppa

Yes. I have found this too. This will cause ArchiCAD to crash. Looks like you have found the work around.
It would be nice to see this limited lifted.

Re: GDL Text I/O Add-on bug?

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:33:27 GMT

Hi Ben,

Glad to hear this is not just me! Yes, the workaround seems to hold everything together so far... Hope this gets fixed some time soon.