thanks for the insight dorris
k

>You treat memo fields, at least on forms, much like you treat any other field. They will scatter to memvar (scatter memo memvar) and can be replaced at will (Replace mymemo with m.editboxtext). Aint a whole bunch special about 'em.
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>>in the following code memonote is a memo field that is displayed and allowed edit
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>>How and where do i save the changes that are made in edit???
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>>save changes to my field memonote
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>>many thanks
>>k
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>>strtofile(memonote,'m.txt')
>>LOCAL oFrm
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>>oFrm= CREATEOBJECT("Note")
>>oFrm.Edit1.Value = filetostr('m.txt') 
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>>oFrm.Show(1)
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>>************************************
>>DEFINE CLASS Note AS Form
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>>	ADD OBJECT Edit1 AS EditBox WITH ;
>>		Height= 470, ;
>>		Left= 16, ;
>>		ReadOnly= .f., ;
>>		TabIndex= 2, ;
>>		Top= 16, ;
>>		Width= 530, ;
>>		Value= ""
>>ENDDEFINE
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>>Public Event MouseWheel As MouseWheelEventHandler
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>>
>>PROCEDURE Object.MouseWheel
>>LPARAMETERS nDirection, nShift, nXCoord, nYCoord
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>>PROCEDURE edit1.MouseWheel
>>		LPARAMETERS nDirection, nShift, nXCoord, nYCoord
>>		
>>		
>>	ENDPROC
>>
>>
>>oFrm.hide(1)
>>