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05-26-16, 06:44 AM   #1
Ketho
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EditBox and long strings

I have problems using EditBoxes containing large amounts of text.
For example 3,500 lines of text comprising 270,000 characters.

Calling :SetText() and :Insert() with very long strings;
or scrolling, resizing and typing in the editbox can freeze up the game.

It's not really a Legion bug, since it's the same on Live and has always been like that as far as I can remember.
Are there maybe any previous discussions about this?



WeakAuras also has problems dealing with it
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17611871083

Edit: I guess the EditBox was not meant for big amounts of text then. If I just wanted to see an in-game plain text list of the amount of character GUIDs I met on the Beta it's already too much to show.

Last edited by Ketho : 05-26-16 at 12:21 PM. Reason: 1,500,000 was a little bit too much lines