Florian,

A correction on my last post... the problem is a limitation on Win95, Win98, and ME.  Under these OS's there's a limitation to the number of items that display in the dialog (56,000 or 64,000 -- something like that).

This limitation was removed in Win2000 and XP.

Phil


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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:19:39 -0500, Florian Gehrke wrote:
>Phil,
>
>did you find any solution for this problem? Unfortunately, it occurs in AS5
>(German version) as well when run under Win 98.
>
>Florian
>
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>On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:20:15 -0400, Phil Schnyder <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Florian,
>>
>>Just had someone send me a sample file like this earlier this week. We're
>looking at it. I think it may have to do with large word lists and umlaute
>(or other extended characters). Both your example and his blew up on
>extended characters.
>>
>>The index is fine - but the dialog displaying the word list is incorrect.
>We're checking this out and I expect to have a fix soon.
>>
>>Phil
>>
>>
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>>On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 04:29:32 -0400, Florian Gehrke wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>there is a problem concerning the Index Wordlist that can be reproduced
>>>easily: If the Word List indicates about 65.000 entries or more, it
>>>collapses near the end, e.g. like this...
>>>
>>>YOUNG
>>>YOUR
>>>YOUTH
>>>ZEBRA
>>>ZENITH
>>>FÖ|  <--- from here on the list is collapsing
>>>###
>>>#1
>>>#2
>>>1
>>>
>>>It always breaks down with characters like FÖ| or PÖ|. From that position
>>>on, the list starts again from the beginning. When clicking on any entry
>>>following this break, for instance the "#1", askSam doesn't jump to
>>>this "#1", but to a document with umlaut, for instance "ÜBEL". In this
>>>case, the list itself does not show any words beginning with umlaut
>>>like "ÄRGER,ÜBEL" (in lists below 65.000 entries they are being indicated
>>>normally).
>>>
>>>So far I know of two computers where this occures. How could this happen?
>>>Is the Word List limited in any way? Is there any solution for that?
>>>
>>>Florian Gehrke