Delphi: Design-Time Component Name Limited to 63 characters

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Delphi: Design-Time Component Name Limited to 63 characters

I've ran into this before, but have always just truncated my component-names to 63 characters. I have a condition now in which I'd like to give a longer-name to the component.

However, it appears that it won't let you input more than 63 characters for the "name". I would assume this is a 63+NULL, which is 64. A nice round number, but an odd round number no? Is there anyway to get around a 63 max-length for the name property?

Attached is a little video showing an attempt to set more than 63 characters: 
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Comments

  1. Vin ColginApril 29, 2014 at 11:07 AM

    Lars Fosdal I count 78. I take it this was just in source and not the Object-Inspector.

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  2. Lars FosdalApril 29, 2014 at 11:08 AM

    Invented while posting :P

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  3. Paul TOTHApril 29, 2014 at 11:03 PM

    Vin Colgin you better use Frames to avoid a big unit, or just set the main form as the Parent of the other forms to keep them on a single Window.

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