I ran into this on a piece of software I inherited. In just about all of the text fields attached to table fields, I had to go in and set one or the other.
Alan
>Alan,
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>For some reason I thought that when the control source for a textbox was a field from a * table *, the maximum length was the # of characters in the field. Also, that the control source was a variable, you had to specify the input max.
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>I must be losing it.
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>>Allan,
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>>As far as I know, it's always been like that. You have to set a mask or set the maxlength.
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>>Alan
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>>>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.
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