Ed and David,
Your ideas are great.
The problem is that I am writing a import engine which will map the ASCII data file to field of a table and instead of giving the user to manually enter the postion of each field I want the users to just visuall select the data against each field name. Also can you suggest me any other control which can give me both Scroll so that I can pick the starting and end position of a text visually no matter what would be the length of ASCII Data.

Have a nice day.

cheers

Taufeeq

>Ed,
>
>FWIW, there's little chance that the code will work. The SET MEMOWIDTH affects memlines and neither one have anything to do with the font properties of the editbox which will control the percieved line breaks inside the control.
>
>>>Can anyone has an idea how can we get start and end position of selection relative to line in multi line edit box. I have used selstart and sellength but it always give me the postion from the first line of editbox text.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>
>>You can count length of eac line in memo, and calculate the needed position:
>>

>>function getrelativeselstart
>>lparameter nSelstart   && this is editbox.selstart property
>>nLines=memlines(memofield)
>>nLength=0
>>For n=1 to nLines
>> if nLength+len(mline(memofield,n))+2>nSelstart
>>   return nSelstart-nLength
>> endif
>> nLength=nLength+len(mline(memofield,n))+2  && allow 2 for chr(13)+chr(10)
>>Endfor
>>

>>
>>This is the idea. I did not test this code so check it carefully when implementing.