Are you doing it in VFP9 in the Properties sheet? I believe, in versions prior to VFP9 you had a 255 chars limit, which was expanded in 9.

>hello to all....
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>I have a Listbox with the :
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>RowSourceType = 3 - SQL Statement
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>but when i attemp to set the Rowsource SELECT String(SELEC bla,bla,bla from bla into cbla....)the full instrucction is broken...
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>I attemp to find the "max leng string" for the Rowsource value but
>not find any answer....
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>can you helme?