>1. Editbox control
> * the edit box control in basectr.vcx (bedt) and editctr.vcx
>(eedt) will no longer work on VFP 8 because it cannot accept a value of 15000 for the maxlength property
> * a form with 15000 maxlength value in bedt or eedt will crash
>
>Is this a VFP 8.0 bug? Any workaround, please.

I don't get any error with the following code (assuming there's a visible form called "form1"). Does it work for you?

form1.AddObject("edit1", "editbox")
form1.edit1.MaxLength = 15000
form1.edit1.Visible = .t.
form1.edit1.value = REPLICATE("1234567890", 1500)
?LEN(form1.edit1.value)