David Cottrell wrote:
> 
> Just tested what happens when you set the handle size. Not good. Maybe
> it would be better if containers worked more like dynamic arrays and
> grabbed memory a chunk at a time?
> 
> I can see that this would create problems all over the place however,
> and the end of the handle would not be the end of the text.
> 
> Begin Globals
> Dim gC As Container
> End Globals
> 
> gC = ""
> sethandlesize ([@gC],10)
> Print Fn GetHandleSize([@gC])'no effect
> 
> gC = "A"
> Print Fn GetHandleSize([@gC])'size  1
> print gC
> 
> sethandlesize ([@gC],10)
> Print Fn GetHandleSize([@gC])'size  10
> gC = gC + "B"
> print gC 'junk output - no B!
> 
> Do
> Handleevents
> Until Fn Button
> 

It seems to work, if you replace:
gC = gC + "B"
with
gC += "B"

-- 
Cheers,

Alain
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