- unsigned int len = ::GetWindowTextLength(GetHwnd()),
- limit = ::SendMessage(GetHwnd(), EM_GETLIMITTEXT, 0, 0);
+ unsigned int limit = ::SendMessage(GetHwnd(), EM_GETLIMITTEXT, 0, 0);
+
+ // HACK: we try to automatically extend the limit for the amount of text
+ // to allow (interactively) entering more than 64Kb of text under
+ // Win9x but we shouldn't reset the text limit which was previously
+ // set explicitly with SetMaxLength()
+ //
+ // we could solve this by storing the limit we set in wxTextCtrl but
+ // to save space we prefer to simply test here the actual limit
+ // value: we consider that SetMaxLength() can only be called for
+ // values < 32Kb
+ if ( limit < 0x8000 )
+ {
+ // we've got more text than limit set by SetMaxLength()
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
+ unsigned int len = ::GetWindowTextLength(GetHwnd());