Table count limit?

[monkeyarris]

The code below was borrowed off the forum, by T.J Tigger originally. And it works as it should except I cannot import more than around 615 files into the listbox. Much more than that and it returns empty handed.

A non-random code has no such limitation. I'm hoping someone here can figure out whats causing the restriction.

-- Get your list of files.
PlayList = Dialog.FileBrowse(true, "Load Videos", "", "", "", "", true, true); 


if PlayList then --If there are songs in the table then proceed
	-- Count the soungs found
	songCount = Table.Count(PlayList); 
	
	-- display the number of songs found
	Dialog.Message("Count","There are " ..songCount .." files added"); 

	-- for each song found we will do the following
	for x=1,songCount do
		--Generate a random number between 1 and the table count
		rndnum = Math.Random(songCount);
		
		--Split the song path using the random number
		tblSong = String.SplitPath(PlayList[rndnum]);

		-- Add the song to a listbox
		ListBox.AddItem("ListBox1", tblSong.Filename , PlayList[rndnum]);

		-- Remove the added item from the table
		Table.Remove(PlayList, rndnum);

		-- get a new table count on the PlayList Table.
		songCount = Table.Count(PlayList); 
	end
end

Any help would be appreciated.

[Shrek]

Folder.Create(_DesktopFolder.."\\Temp Files");

for i =1, 700 do
 TextFile.WriteFromString(_DesktopFolder.."\\Temp Files\\"..i..".txt","",false);
end

PlayList = Dialog.FileBrowse(true, "Locate File", _DesktopFolder.."\\Temp Files", "All Files (*.*)|*.*|", "", "txt", true, false);
if PlayList then 
	Dialog.Message("Count","There are " ..#PlayList .." files added"); 
	for x=1,#PlayList do
		rndnum = Math.Random(#PlayList);
		tblSong = String.SplitPath(PlayList[rndnum]);
		ListBox.AddItem("ListBox1", tblSong.Filename , PlayList[rndnum]);
		--Table.Remove(PlayList, rndnum);
		--songCount = Table.Count(PlayList); 
	end 
end

whats commented out is your problem, its a bit pointless deleting table entries to get a count when you are adding them all anyway.

[monkeyarris]

Thanks very much Shrek, loaded 2000 text files no problem!
Much appreciated.

[monkeyarris]

After some experimentation I've found that file names which use special characters may cause a failure when trying to load hundreds of items into the listbox. After renaming all my music vids they loaded without problem. This wasn't an issue with non-random code, but looking at it I can't figure out what's causing the problem.

[johnraus]

ooops, my typing was faster then my thinking ... wrong post sorry