Tamar,

thank you for your reply.

No DisplayPath() wouldn't help.
-Eclipsis always in the middle
-Maxlenght is in chars, I have pixels (...) only

Agnes

>>Hi All,
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>>I have a problem with captions on a check box (or with anything with a caption)
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>>The object is off fixed length (Autosize=.f., WordWrap=.F.), but the caption may be altered by user input (user may change field captions). Now sometimes the caption is to long. I would like to do something like clipping as the report does. For now I see nothing then running backwards through the string until it fits (via TXTWIDTH) , but that feels so clumsy.
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>>Any better ideas?
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>Would the DisplayPath() function help?
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>Tamar