'Please enter no more than 50 characters.' error message displayed when designing components of a signal segment in SigGenRP

Tech Note: TN0180
Product: SigGenRP
Version: All
Date Added: 2005-05-13

Issue

When designing components of a signal segment in SigGenRP, for Call: File16, you will get a "Please enter no more than 50 characters." error message if you attempt to enter a filename that is more than 50 characters long. In addition, any filenames between 34 and 50 characters long (including file extension) will be truncated to 34 characters without warning and will not work properly.

Similarly, for Call: File*, when browsing for a file, if the resulting path is longer than 50 characters you will get the error message mentioned earlier. In addition, any paths between 34 and 50 characters long (including file extension) will be truncated to 34 characters without warning and will not work properly.

Workaround

Make sure, depending on the call above, that the filename with extension or the path with extension is shorter than 34 characters.