Greetings.

Is anybody able to effectively limit the number of characters per line
and the number of lines entered into a multi-line textbox?

I know about the CurLine and LineCount properties but have so far been
unable to put something together which effectively stops extra lines
being added.  (I've tried undoaction, but just get a runtime error!
And if it did work, it would loose all the entries rather than just
the final line)

Is there a way of limiting the number of lines allowed without writing
code into a change event?

The same goes for the characters per line.  Through a few experiments
I've managed to stop entry using the CurX property of the textbox, but
this doesn't (to me at least) appear to be an ideal method.

Thanks for any input on this.

Daren

To limit the number of lines, you would then set the MaxLength property of
the textbox to:

            CharactersPerLine * NoOfAllowableLines

eg: If you have set the width of the textbox to accommodate 30 characters
and you want to allow only 6 lines, you would set the MaxLength property to
180.

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Hope this helps.
Regards
ibby

Please post replies or follow-ups to the **newsgroup** so that participants
may benefit or contribute.

 As usual, I was trying to be too clever by half!

Daren