>>i need to show about 10 lines of a description, total character length is about 500 characters, i have put it in got focus event of a textbox in a grid using wait wind nowait. the entire 500 characters (maybe more later on) have to be visible to the user while they use the up and down cursor.
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>>of course i get the string too long error but is any work around or any other way around this?
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>Use a messagebox instead.
Tore
Don't you mean an editbox (as Rakesh referred to a text box)?
And the text could be stored in a memo field if too long to be assigned to a text field.
Terry
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