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Re: dialog_pickfile internal buffer [message #39243 is a reply to message #39241]

Mon, 03 May 2004 09:50

btt
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Registered: December 2000

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David Chevrier wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Quick question. I'm entering a large number of 512x512 tiff images
> of ct scanned fish into a widget based gui I wrote for polygon
> extraction of their air bladder(s). However, I have found a little
> problem. My pro crashes out on this line:
> filesToUse = DIALOG_PICKFILE(FILTER='*.tif', TITLE='Pick the TIF
> files', /MULTIPLE_FILES)
> with the message "DIALOG_PICKFILE: Dialog failure - Internal buffer of
> 32767 bytes exceeded."
>
> This only happens when I try to pick more than 627 images at once. (I
> know its a lot.) I have been able to make a few work-arounds, but I
> was curious if anyone knew how to change the internal buffer (if at
> all possible).
>

Hello,

I don't know what the error means, but you might consider having the
user select a directory (see the DIRECTORY keyword for DIALOG_PICKFILE)
instead of selecting multiple files.

Ben

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