Setting a limit for the textbox . . .

[CodeNoobster]

Hey everyone, little problem here, I have managed to make text dynamically appear in a text-box while I enter text into another.

how ever I would like to know to to limit the amount of text that is dynamically entered(I'd say about 10 characters at most). Any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated!

here's a sample of what I have done so far:

Random r = new Random();
int IDrandom = r.Next(0, 9);
Emp_ID.Text += IDrandom.ToString();

//Emp_ID.MaxLength = 10; does not work

[horace1]

in the specification of TextBox

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textboxbase.maxlength%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

it states
In code, you can set the value of the Text property to a value that has a length greater than the value specified by the MaxLength property. This property only affects text entered into the control at run time.

hence the MaxLength property does not work as you expect

after you have added the latest character to Emp_ID.Text could you read the Emp_ID.Text property as a String and use the String.Remove() method to delete all but the last 10 characters then write it back into Emp_ID.Text

[CodeNoobster]

Thanks horace1 that helps. thumbs up

[horace1]

in fact as you are only adding one character at a time you only need to delete the first character, e.g.

Emp_ID.Text += IDrandom.ToString();
string s = Emp_ID.Text;
if (s.Length > 10) s=s.Remove(0, 1);
Emp_ID.Text=s;