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Re: LYNX-DEV Bug in Lynx 2.6 under IRIX with large tables


From: Foteos Macrides
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Bug in Lynx 2.6 under IRIX with large tables
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 13:32:10 -0500 (EST)

"Hiram Lester, Jr." <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, David Combs wrote:
>
>> So far, I've never run into the problem -- but my bookmarks
>> file is growing, and I'd imagine the same limit applies
>> to that as to any other page.  Suggestions:
>
>Again, it doesn't matter how many TOTAL links a file has, but how many
>links appear on one screenful of information... So, since the bookmarks
>file has one link per line, you'd have to have an AWFULLY big screen
>and/or an AWFULLY small font to get 256 links on screen at once. :)
>
>>    Until dynamic code is found/upgraded/installed, raise
>>    the default to 1000 (it is "just" an array of pointers,
>>    I'd imagine -- but don't know.  If an array of huge
>>    structs, pre-allocated, than that's something else!).
>
>Yes, it is an array of structures (HText?) that contains the URL of the
>link, the link text and some other info.
>
>>    Most importantly (assuming it is not doing this already!),
>>    add a "shout out" to Fote's "fix" via ignoring, so at least
>>    the user knows what's happening to "this" page, effectively
>>    being truncated.  Maybe display a page that says what's 
>>    happening, with either it timing out after 5 seconds, or
>>    the user having to manually return to the too-big page.
>
>At first I didn't think this would be too difficult, but now that I think
>of it, since it is on a screen by screen basis, it might be more
>difficult.  I'm not sure how lynx handles the info not being displayed
>(most of my knowledge of how lynx works comes more from listening to
>Fote and others explain the internal workings than actually poking around
>myself... :( ), but such a message would have to be displayed every time
>you paged to a new screen with too many links.
>
>Ok, I just checked out a theory and it proved to be correct.  Lynx renders
>them dynamically as I suspected, so the links which are unselectable can
>still be used after using 2 lines up or down (^P and ^N) or half screen up
>and down ('(' and ')') to cause the pages to break somewhere else...

        Talk about coincidence!  Two seconds before this message arrived,
I had increased MAXHIST and MAXLINKS, and added statusline() messaging.
Here's the too many links on a page message:

#define MAXLINKS_REACHED \
 "Maximum links per page exceeded!  Use half-page or two-line scrolling."

                                Fote

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