Direct Input character limit

Grasshopper ShapeDiver
1

Hello,

is there any chance that the 10k character limit for the direct text input could be increased ?
Thanks

2

Have you considered using a Import Text component?

3

Unfortunately this is not a possible solution for us because our app updates on the fly the inputs so creating files and uploading them will slow down way too much the user experience.

4

I suppose you are directly embedding the viewer in your application, is that correct? If so there is no problem, the user won’t notice the file upload.

5

The TypeScript code would look like this:

const myLongText = "bliblablo";
const blob = new Blob([myLongText], {type: "text/plain"});

Then set the value of your file parameter to blob (the parameter that corresponds to your Import Text component).
The file upload is automatically handled for you.

There will be a slight performance overhead due to the additional API call for the file upload, but for strings shorter than 10000 characters you can still use a direct text input.

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Ok thanks, we’ll take that into account and compare with other solutions we have in mind in order to shorten the text input.

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