:O) Ok, that was pretty silly of me. I didn't even notice that 'x' in there! You'd think it was Friday...

Thanks Sergey! :o)
Tracy

>It should be "*' not 'x'.

lblheight = (LEN(lcmessage)/60)*17

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>>Thanks Sergey, I looked at alert.prg but it requires foxtools and I'm trying to limit what is distributed with our app to keep the size as small as possible.
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>>I have created a form that works well, however, I need to be able to resize it and its objects based on the size of the message. I have a label that holds the message and the message is passed to the form and displays correctly. However, I would like to resize everything based on the length of the message. I know the label height should be approximately 17 X the length of the message divided by 60, but the below does not work:
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>>THISFORM.label1.caption=lcmessage
>>lblheight=(LEN(lcmessage)/60)x17
>>THISFORM.label1.height=lblheight
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>>I receive the 'syntax error' when I try the above code. Any idea how I can set a label height using a computed value?
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>>TIA,
>>Tracy
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>>this is my message and is about 3 lines long in total on the form
>>>You can try Alert.prg - custom messagebox File #9445.
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>>>>Has anyone figured out a way to display a messagebox with custom captions on the buttons? I would like to do this WITHOUT adding an FLL to my project as in File #9676.
>>>>
>>>>TIA,
>>>>Tracy