<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I have an OrderedCollection with 24,576 elements.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">A bunch of musical notes basically: each of the 24,576 elements is like: <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">#('eo6' 0.25 500)<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">for example.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Goal: I would like to turn that *entire* OrderedCollection into a single MIDI file. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">However, there seems to be some sort of size limitation that I do not see how to get around.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new
york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">1) Even before getting to the MIDI part, I tried:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">FileStream fileNamed: '1-24576.rtf'<br>do: [:stream | stream nextPutAll: ((oc copyFrom: 1 to:24576) asString)].</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;">which creates a nice file of 48.8KB size.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">And opening the file, it ends with: <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">
</div><pre> #('c#o6' 0.25 500) #('d...etc...</pre>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">which is not what I expected.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">2) If I do:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">FileStream fileNamed: '1-2729.rtf'<br>do: [:stream | stream nextPutAll: ((oc copyFrom: 1 to:2729) asString)].</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">it works fine: ending tidily with the expected:
</div><pre>#('c#o6' 0.25 500))</pre>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">3) But,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">FileStream fileNamed: '1-2730.rtf'<br>do: [:stream | stream nextPutAll: ((oc copyFrom: 1 to:2730) asString)].</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new
york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">is where this starts:<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">
</div><pre> #('c#o6' 0.25 500) #('d...etc...<br></pre>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">This exact same problem happens when making MIDI files: there seems to be a size limitation around 48.8KB.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Aside from MIDI, is FileStream just the wrong class to use for anything larger than creating a 48.8kb text file (.txt or .rtf)? Or how can I get around this restriction?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new
york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Any suggestions are most welcome. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thanks,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">ken</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,new
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