Nadya,

Is the EditBox bound to a memo field?

>Hi Ken,
>
> I'm afraid you misunderstood me, because I've not started a new thread and continued here.
>
> My problem is not restrict input to 6 lines. I want that my users type 5 digits in each line, like
>11111
>22222
>33333
>44444,
>etc.
>
> If they type :AAAAA - it's a bad input or if they type 1111 - it's also a bad input, because I want to use this editbox for zipcodes, so it must be 5 digits.
>
> Now I hope you understand my problem.
>
> I discuss this in other day and Ed Pikman advised to use Grid instead of EditBox. But this approach requeres lot of modifications in my current, and I was trying to avoid unnecessary complexity. I already make an addition in VFP7 wish list about InputMask for editbox. Since now we haven't this property, I should do some checking in Valid method, right?
>Or it could be KeyPress?
>
>Anyway, your ideas are greatly appreciated. Right now I decided just not to check, but this is still in my mind...
>
>
>>
>>You can use the valid, and ErrorMessage events:
>>
>>

* Edit1.Valid()
>>
>>return 	occurs(chr(13),this.value)=5
>>
>>* Edit1.ErrorMessage
>>if occurs(chr(13),this.value) >5
>>	wait window 'You may enter only 6 lines' nowait
>>else
>>	wait window 'You must enter at least 6 lines' nowait
>>endif

>>
>>>Hi Ken,
>>>
>>> Continue the theme of editbox, how can I check that users type 5 and only 5 digits in each line? If not, display a warning message and stop.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>