Increase USERCMD/BAR line and command line length limits

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Increase USERCMD/BAR line and command line length limits

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It seems that TC only reads 2048 characters from USERCMD/BAR parameters because longer lines are truncated, also button bar editor doesn't allow typing more than 260 characters into command field and more than 2048 characters into parameters field.

Please increase these limits (INI string length limit and command/parameters fields length) to at least 4096 characters because modern Windows versions do not limit command lines to 2048 characters, command line may be much longer.
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The problem is that each section in the ini files is limited to 64kBytes. If I allow too many characters, this would fill up too quickly.

Just put the command in a lnk file and refer to that instead of the program directly.
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Please leave this problem for a user, one will want to have 1000 little commands, another one may want to have 5 commands with 4k command lines... And, third one will use buttonbars with extra long commands. There is a limit in Windows INI format, so TC shouldn't add more limits (260 character limit for command field and 2048 character limit for parameters field). But you can warn user if he creates em-command and his INI is close to this limit.

Workarounds are not too much good: BAT has blinking black window, no Unicode support and problems with escaping, LNK is not portable and doesn't allow to insert TC parameters, and it doesn't allow typing more than 260 characters in command line...

Broken button example (command line is cut after "/s /"):

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Command: AskParam.exe
Parameters=/u"Internet Explorer: {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}" /t"AutoPlay: {9C60DE1E-E5FC-40f4-A487-460851A8D915}" /t"Administrative Tools: {D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153}" /t"Libraries: {031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}" /t"Windows Firewall: {4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}"  /t"All Tasks: {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" /t"All Control Panel Items: {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" /t"Location and Other Sensors: {E9950154-C418-419e-A90A-20C5287AE24B}" /t"Credential Manager: {1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}" /t"HomeGroup: {67CA7650-96E6-4FDD-BB43-A8E774F73A57}" /t"HomeGroup folder: {6785BFAC-9D2D-4be5-B7E2-59937E8FB80A}" /t"Games: {ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}" /t"Favorites: {323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}" /t"Computer: {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}" /t"Recycle Bin: {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}" /t"My Documents: {450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}" /t"Recent Places: {22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}" /t"Public: {4336a54d-038b-4685-ab02-99bb52d3fb8b}" /t"Control Panel (Category): {26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}" /t"Folder Options: {6DFD7C5C-2451-11d3-A299-00C04F8EF6AF}" /t"Tablet PC Settings: {80F3F1D5-FECA-45F3-BC32-752C152E456E}" /t"Font settings: {93412589-74D4-4E4E-AD0E-E0CB621440FD}" /t"Portable Devices: {35786D3C-B075-49b9-88DD-029876E11C01}" /t"Pen and Touch: {F82DF8F7-8B9F-442E-A48C-818EA735FF9B}" /t"Personalization: {ED834ED6-4B5A-4bfe-8F11-A626DCB6A921}" /t"Remote Desktop Connection: {241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}" /t"Search: {2559a1f0-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}" /t"Get Programs: {15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}" /t"Printers: {2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}" /t"Programs and Features: {7b81be6a-ce2b-4676-a29e-eb907a5126c5}" /t"Default Programs: {17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}" /t"Desktop: {3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}" /t"Speech Recognition: {58E3C745-D971-4081-9034-86E34B30836A}" /t"Default Location: {00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}" /p(h) %%COMMANDER_EXE%% /L=::"%%1" /s /t /o
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