>>>>>As for the maximum number of items a list may have, I don't know of a limit. In my interfaces, if a list will contain more than 1 or 2 hundred items I start looking for a different way to present the stuff to the user. I find lists with 1,000's f item to be totally impossible to use, from the users point of view. Scrolling through 1,000's of item in a list is not my idea of a good way to spend my time so I don't ask my users to do that either.
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>>>>I agree with you. Also, even if there's no limit for the number of items, there's a bug for lists with more than 253 items. And this is somehow a limit.
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>>>>Vlad
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>>>What sort of bug? And what method would you use to present a longer list of items?
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>>Bret, this is a documented bug. MS KB article Q164252 talks about it - the 253rd item in the list doesn't select correctly, nor does the 509th, 765th, etc. (The 253rd out of each set of 256)
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>>HTH
>>Barbara
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>Correct! More than that, there are selection problems with multiselect even if you don't select the 253rd, etc.
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>Vlad

Many of the bugs in VFP3.0 were fixed in VFP5, but it's still unstable.

Barbara