>I've done a length check on the memvar and on the value property and they both return 2000. I've looked at the 2000th character and it's there.
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>In you test, did you create a single line edit box? BTW, I 'm not sure if I mentioned that I'm using VFP 3.0b.

After more testing (in vfp5). There are two limits I have found:

1) Like you mention, a single line edit box gives me exactly 2000 chars no matter how much maxlength I assign.

2) Maxlength becomes the dominant factor when >1 line is used, full length of string appears in edit box if enough space is allocated. The default of 0 gives me 2000 chars, exactly.

Here is code I used, then just factor 10-99 *2, 100-999*3, etc., and sum them up.

for i = 1 to 5000
CNum = CNum+alltrim(str(i))
endfor
thisform.edit1.value=CNum

So I guess maybe you've found some kind of bug, though why mine is 2000 limit and yours 1000, who knows? Maybe version?