Allan,

As far as I know, it's always been like that. You have to set a mask or set the maxlength.

Alan

>Can anyone advise as to how/why too many characters are being accepted in a texbox?
>Here is the scenario:
>I have a text box with a control source of a field in table that is 30 characters. If I don't specify an input mask, 45 character can be input then the field redisplays as the correct 30 characters.
>I belive that this text class was working fine until I added a navigation class included with the VFP 7 samples.
>
>Thank you in inadvance.