Okay, how about this?

Do you call the modal form with:

DO FORM myForm WITH this.someProperty

If so, then try this on for size < s >. This way of calling the form is "trying" to pass the property by reference (like a var to a procedure), but since properties can only be passed by value, VFP is suffering from vapor lock and telling (unhelpfully) that it's having trouble.

Assigning the property to a variable bypasses this problem since the memvar can be passed by reference.

What do you think?

>I am not convinced. The property is perfectly capable of holding a valuea of that size, I am just not able to pass it without first assigning it to a variable.
>Secondly, property values are not stored internally in character fields, but in memo fields.
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>Rick?
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>>I think Rick's post answers the question. At least "technically." :)
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>>>Well problem solved, but mystery is not. Why am I able to assign a string of that length, and access it, but not able to directly pass it as a parameter?