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Prompt length limit workaround?
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06/04/1998 14:58:27
 
 
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06/04/1998 14:53:19
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Menus & Menu designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00089910
Message ID:
00089948
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>>>>>>>>Does anyone know of a way around the limitation of 43 characters for the prompt in the menu builder?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>don't think there is one, but why would you need that many?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I use VFP as the reporting engine for a VB based client/server application. Currently, there are over 200 reports in the system. The reports are accessed from menu options created using the menu builder. To describe the reports adequately, I run up against this limitation quite a bit. I didn't think there was a workaround, but thanks for your response anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>>Are you sure that 43 char is a limit. I just look at menu with 45-char prompt.
>>>>
>>>>I tested this one time a while ago. I might be off by 1 or 2.
>>>
>>>Hmm... Now I see 80 chars :).
>>
>>Do you get an error when you try to re-build the project? That's when it would error on me.
>
>Rebuilding.... No error.

You are right. It must have only been a VFP 3.0 limitation. I'll have to port this app to VFP 5.0. Thanks.
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