ehm, no, it's limit of VFP, from help:

Visual FoxPro System Capacities
Maximum length of a string literal - 255

You can't create string constant which length is larger then 255 bytes.

MartinaJ


>Martina,
>
>The base table has only 20 fields? So is this a limitation of VFP's CursorAdapter?
>
>Thanks
>
>Dennis
>
>
>>Hi Dennis,
>>
>>It's limit (255 charaters) for string literar...
>>
>>
>>>Borislav,
>>>
>>>>could you post the CA definition?
>>>
>>

>>DEFINE CLASS castudent_ AS mysqlcursoradapter
>>
>>UpdatableFieldList = "CODE, LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME, MIDDLENAME, CHINAME, FAMILYCODE, GRADELVLID, SECTIONID, "+;
>>                                "SELDEST, ENROLLDATE, BALANCE, GENDER, BIRTHDAY, BIRTHPLACE, EMAIL, MOBILE,"+;
>>                                "RELIGIONID,"+59 CITIZENID, NOTES,ID"
>>	
>>

>>
>>
>>MartinaJ
>>>
>>>Take note of the UpdateNameList property. For some strange reason, the builder shows the correct checked updatable fields. But after closing the builder, it seems to produce an erroneous UpdateNameList value! (This happened when I added the field CHINAME and CHINAMEX in the MySQL table then redid the CA.)
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>Dennis