>>>>Hello,
>>>> I have an editbox on a form which displays data as it is recieved form the mscomm control. Does anyone know how to automatically scroll an editbox to the bottom as it's value changes? Also, how much data can I stuff into an editbox? Thanks,
>>>>John
>>>
>>>this.Selstart = len(this.value)
>>>2Gb in theory
>>
>>Probably not. The limit on a memory variable is 16 MB so that may be the limit here. (Don't know, haven't tested it.)
>
>Larry,
>I don't remember I saw 16Mb limit anywhere before. Is it in VFP7 ref ? or I'm looking at wrong places ever. Anyway I don't think that someone would hit that limit for a memo.
>Cetin

Hi Cetin,
Under Visual FoxPro Documentation - Using Visual FoxPro - Programmer's Guide - Appendix - Visual FoxPro System Capacities. The Maximum # of characters per character string or memory variable is 16 MB. I ran into this particlular issue when attempting to test a supposed problem with ADIR() and > 1GB files (posted by George T. the other day). When I passed a string longer than 16 MB to replicate() to build a file, VFP threw an error.

VFP must store passed expressions as internal variables before continuing and it ran over this limit.