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Delphi: Design-Time Component Name Limited to 63 characters (via: Vin Colgin – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05

I learned something new today (thanks Vin Colgin) the Delphi Design-Time Component Name is Limited to 63 characters.

Uwe Raabe found out that this an Object Inspector thing due to this constant in DesignIntf.pas:

const
  MaxIdentLength = 63;

It has been probably there since Delphi 1 and has been documented on-line since at least Delphi 2007.

I remember having had long (like 100+ character) identifiers in source code, but not in the Object Inspector.

Now I know you can’t (:

–jeroen

via: Vin Colgin – Google+ – Delphi: Design-Time Component Name Limited to 63 characters….

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4 Responses to “Delphi: Design-Time Component Name Limited to 63 characters (via: Vin Colgin – Google+)”

  1. woutervannifterick's avatar

    woutervannifterick said

    2014/05/06 at 02:17

    “63 characters should be enough for anybody” :)

    Reply
  2. SpeedFreak's avatar

    SpeedFreak said

    2014/05/05 at 21:14

    “This is constant DesignIntf.MaxIdentLength”

    I wouldn’t call that documented…:-)

    Reply

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