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Khalid Khalid
(11●1●1●3) May 09 '25, 10:17 a.m.

Hello,

I'm working on converting DOORS Tables into richText format. The generated rich text string (including rich text tags) is approximately 80,000 characters.


When I use the richText(string) function to convert this string to an RTF table and assign it to a Text attribute of an object, the module either fails to open or the section containing the converted object loads indefinitely when scrolling to it.


I tried reducing the character count to around 60,000, and the module opened successfully, although performance (especially scrolling) was noticeably degraded.


Has anyone else experienced this issue? 

Is there a known character limit or a workaround to improve module stability when using these RTF tables with alot of charachters?


Thanks in advance!

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stuart green
(81●1) May 09 '25, 12:17 p.m.
Hi Khalid,

RTF tables are not technically supported in DOORS so the behaviour may not be completely predicatable. However, if you are assigning the value to the Object Text there will be an attempt to show it in the Module Explorer pane (that left-hand side panel showing the object hierarchy). That is a common cause of scrolling problems, so you could try switching it off in the View->Module Explorer menu.

Any limit on RTF characters is well over 80,000 characters.

Regards.

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Khalid Khalid
May 09 '25, 4:31 p.m.

Hello Stuart, 

thank you for your feedback.

I've tried disabling the Module Explorer menu and tried again (converting the 80k charachters to RTF table)

but it is still doing the same infinite loop while converting.

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