EPG programme descriptions truncated

[acidfiend2003]

I'm using XMLTVGUI to grab UK Freeview listings from Radio Times. When I view the XML data file generated the programme description tag looks fine, but when rendered in GBPVR it is truncated to 256 characters.

An example from today:-

Code:

<desc lang="en">Five-part series following a group of troublesome British teenage girls who are sent to a leading American wilderness programme for out-of-control adolescents. After seven weeks in the wilderness, the girls finally face the possibility of graduating, but the discovery of a discarded cigarette butt could send the group's hopes up in smoke.</desc>

This gets shown on screen as:-

Code:

Five-part series following a group of troublesome British teenage girls who are sent to a leading American wilderness programme for out-of-control adolescents. After seven weeks in the wilderness, the girls finally face the possibility of graduating, but

I guess these strings are stored in a database, any chance of making the column wider or using a different datatype?

Cheers
Dave

[nemulate]

Your right these are stored in an access database which limits the field width to 255 characters.

[acidfiend2003]

Is that the widest column supported by Access for strings?

Cheers
Dave