>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?
Rakesh,
Why not use TooltipText for TextBox in a grid. Unfortunately I couldn't test how TooltipText behave in VFP6 but in VFP8 I have no problem with 500 bytes long string.
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