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length of Component list column

Jochen Suehlo
Moderator
The length of a column in a Component list is limited to 31 characters.
Is it possible to change this limitation to a higher value?
There are no such settings in the list settings dialog.
Jochen Suehlo . AC12-27 . MAC OSX 14.4 . WIN11
GDL object creation: b-prisma.de
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
Hi Joachim,

I'm not sure what you mean by the limit of 31 characters (you say length, but I think you mean width)?

See attached - the Component Name column is over 40 characters wide there.

Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 28 USA and earlier   •   macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
Longer text = wider columns
Wider.png
One of the forum moderators
AC 28 USA and earlier   •   macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Jochen Suehlo
Moderator
Thank You Karl.
The components and descriptors are defined in the GDL-object.
See the attached screenshot of the text-file listing.
The first line is the DESCRIPTOR, the second line the COMPONENT.
In the third column you see the 31 characters. If I define longer text lines in the GDL scrript, the charakters will be cut at no. 31.

I think I can change the component key with the component name,
then I will have longer texts.
Jochen Suehlo . AC12-27 . MAC OSX 14.4 . WIN11
GDL object creation: b-prisma.de