presenting large amounts of text

[Tony Zuccolotto]

Andrew,

You definitely want to store these in an external file, e.g. storing
them directly inside of objects will each up E-Basic constant space and
that's what will give you the script too large errors.

You should be able to read a page of text with no problem.  What
commands are you using to read in the text?

Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrews, A.S. [mailto:asa8 at leicester.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 5:57 AM
> To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
> Subject: presenting large amounts of text
> 
> Dear All
> 
> I need to present several pages of text, from 3 different documents,
with
> a fixed time limit to read all three documents. I can handle the
> presentations and timing etc, but I have a problem getting the text
into
> E-Prime. If I have the text on text-objects I get 'script to large to
> compile' errors, and if I try to read it from a text file I'm having
> problems storing strings longer than 255 characters.
> 
> I could always create bitmaps of the text, but surely there is a
better
> way to do this?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Tony Andrews
> Senior Computer Officer
> School of Psychology
> University of Leicester
> University Road
> Leicester LE1 7RH
> Tel: 0116 223 1709 Fax: 0116 252 2067
> email: asa8 at le.ac.uk