Hi Cetin,

to point 1

How do you know if it fits?, anyway, Font* is not subject to change.

to point 2
MAXLEN depends on the characters used. (iiii <> mmmm) (IOW: I know MaxLen in Pixels, not in chars)
I know how to calculate the lenght of a string, but this would mean to do a backward loop until it fits (what I try to avoid)

Agnes
>>Cetin,
>>
>>my failure.
>>
>>What I mean was Trim as the report does, like trim to the nearest word or adding eclipsis.
>>
>>Agnes
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>I have a problem with captions on a check box (or with anything with a caption)
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Any better ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Agnes
>>>
>>>If autosize = .f. it does the clipping by default, no?
>>>Cetin
>
>I see. I do 2 things:
>1) Calculate the width and decrease fontsize till it fits.
>2) Trim adding ...:
>

>if len(m.lcString) > MAXLEN
>   lcString = left(m.lcString, MAXLEN-3) + '...'
>endif

Cetin