It's documented in Help. Make sure that you have the "new" help file, https://github.com/VFPX/HelpFile

>Yes you are right. I don't know where it is documented but 1024.
>
>>Yes, the limit is 1024 characters.
>>
>>>There isn't such a limit.
>>>
>>>>There were some implementations allowing longer texts, but then of course had a different GUI -
>>>>IIRC Steve Black of Foxpro Wiki and other fame put one out into Open Source, which we used with a table based translation. Texts were entered into a table - but uncertain if that was included in Steves sources or homegrown.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I use MESSAGEBOX() to show message on the screen but it's limited to 255 characters.
>>>>>
>>>>>is there any way which can show more characters?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks in advance
>>>>>
>>>>>Jerry Yang