[wxPython-users] wx.TextCtrl maximal line length

[Josiah Carlson]

stefaan <stefaan.himpe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I seem to have hit a limit in the wx.TextCtrl, created with
> wx.TE_MULTILINE and wx.HSCROLL, when displaying a long line of text.
> (long in my case meaning > 12000 characters)
> The output is corrupted, as if two lines of text were printed on top of each
> other. The control works perfectly for short lines of text.
> 
> In fact I want to display two such lines, neatly aligned under each other, 
> and with differences between them being colored.

Are you sure you are going to need to handle lines of >12000 characters? 
Seems a bit overkill for line diffs.

> Is this a python specific limitation, or a general wxwidgets limitation?
> Any other widgets I could use to accomplish my goal?

You may or may not have better luck using a wx.ScrolledPanel and
wx.lib.fancytext .

 - Josiah