Hi John,

Here is an alternate way of retreiving the text length of the RTF control using Window's messages:

DECLARE Long SendMessage IN WIN32API AS SendMessage_C ;
    Long hwnd, Long msg, String, Long

nLen = SendMessage_C(oRTFControl.hWnd, 1119, REPLICATE(CHR(0),8), 0)
** 1119 = WM_USER+EM_GETTEXTLENGTHEX

Depending on the size of the text, this was 10 to 800 times faster than using LEN(oRTFControl.Text) for me. Also note, that the DECLARE only needs to be called once. So you should not include it in your refresh event.

You may also want to use the SelChange event instead of a timer.

I hope this helps,