Read by Council Make the Display Module symbol limit configurable?

[p620]

Basically the suggestion is simple and pretty much self-explanatory. This would make "floating text hacks" more flexible and easier to perform (with this, text projection not limited to a 3 block radius would become possible). Unless, of course, there are some rendering limitations, and making the text to appear further than 3 blocks away from the Module will cause some issues...

 

[p620]

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[Sven_The_Slayer]

There are many advanced techniques you can use to extend the range of your display modules.


I'm sure there is a reason for the character limit in display modules but if it could be extended it should. There are additional suggestions regarding adding new types of display modules or the ability to offset the text using special tags.

 

[p620]

Yeah, I've seen that video. And the one which came after that. But currently there unfortunately is no way which I'm aware of to offset the text further than 3-4 blocks away from the module (and in this case the text itself must be relatively short in length). Considering all those awesome features, which are possible now with involvement of rails, and will be possible later with some rumored to be upcoming display module system expansions, imho it's an absolute must-have to be able to project the text without such inconvinient limitations.
About the possible technical limitations: for now display modules use '255' as a string size limit. Also this value is a maximum for a single-byte unsigned variables. Unlike C++, C# and Java are using 16-bit characters, so this will make 255 * 16 / 8 + 1 /*current size*/= 510, which is apprx 0.5KB of memory. Increasing the size cap to 2-byte max value, we will get 65535 * 16 / 8 + 2 = 131072, which is exactly 128KB of memory. As it is a significant increase, no doubts here, it is also not that relevant, as today computers often come equipped with 8+GB of RAM.

 

[Lord_Greyscale]

as today computers often come equipped with 8+GB of RAM.

And those same computers tend to have 2, repeat, TWO distinct problems attached to them.

A: if it is Windows, the operating system itself is straight up eating anywhere from 1.5 to 3 Gigs of ram just to run itself + all the crap it comes pre-loaded with.
(and removing the pre-loaded bloatware often requires more time to remove than learning Unix)

B: Cost. The genuinely good ones cost quite the pretty penny, which most of us either can't afford, or could afford, were it not for the many and varied bills we have.
(or, job opportunities just genuinely suck ass where you live, which is my current problem)

 

[therimmer96]

A: if it is Windows, the operating system itself is straight up eating anywhere from 1.5 to 3 Gigs of ram just to run itself + all the crap it comes pre-loaded with.

Which is why the standard information offered by the community and schine is to allocated total amount of ram - 2gb to Java. Even if you max out that amount, you'd still have a comfortable 2gb, plus pagefile.

(and removing the pre-loaded bloatware often requires more time to remove than learning Unix)

Or half a braincell. Windows 8 and up even have a nice extra window in task manager for stopping things from starting at startup, aswell as telling you if it causes an issue.

B: Cost. The genuinely good ones cost quite the pretty penny, which most of us either can't afford, or could afford, were it not for the many and varied bills we have.

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[p620]

And those same computers tend to have 2, repeat, TWO distinct problems attached to them.

A: if it is Windows, the operating system itself is straight up eating anywhere from 1.5 to 3 Gigs of ram just to run itself + all the crap it comes pre-loaded with.
(and removing the pre-loaded bloatware often requires more time to remove than learning Unix)

B: Cost. The genuinely good ones cost quite the pretty penny, which most of us either can't afford, or could afford, were it not for the many and varied bills we have.
(or, job opportunities just genuinely suck ass where you live, which is my current problem)

And ultimately I completely don't understand how any of these can possibly be connected to the amount of RAM the computer has.