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  • Quack Boy
    #1

    Textbox limit

    Hi all,
    I've worked out that the limit of a textbox is 64Kb. What can I do if
    the I want to work with text which is, say four or five times as much?
    Can I extend the limit (maxlength??) of the text box or do I have to
    change the textbox for some other component? And yes, I'm very very
    new to VB ;)

    Thank you.
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    • Noozer
      #2
      Re: Textbox limit

      > What can I do if[color=blue]
      > the I want to work with text which is, say four or five times as much?
      > Can I extend the limit (maxlength??) of the text box or do I have to
      > change the textbox for some other component? And yes, I'm very very
      > new to VB ;)[/color]

      You could use a RTFbox instead. Rightclick left toolbar -> Components... ->
      Check "Microsoft Rich Text Box" -> OK


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        • Quack Boy
          #3
          Re: Textbox limit

          On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:15:01 +0100, "Noozer" <noozer@NOSPAMh otpop.com>
          wrote:

          [color=blue]
          >You could use a RTFbox instead. Rightclick left toolbar -> Components... ->
          >Check "Microsoft Rich Text Box" -> OK
          >[/color]

          Althougth you would have thought you could just substitute one for the
          other, the RTF seems to screw up the instr function. - Or at least get
          different values from the original txtbox. Can anyone shed anylight on
          this confusion?




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            • Rick Rothstein
              #4
              Re: Textbox limit

              > >You could use a RTFbox instead. Rightclick left toolbar ->
              Components... ->[color=blue][color=green]
              > >Check "Microsoft Rich Text Box" -> OK
              > >[/color]
              > Althougth you would have thought you could just substitute one for the
              > other, the RTF seems to screw up the instr function. - Or at least get
              > different values from the original txtbox. Can anyone shed anylight on
              > this confusion?[/color]

              It should work as expected on the Text property (as opposed to the
              TextRTF property). On the other hand, InStr isn't really needed since
              the RichTextBox provides a Find method that you can use which, if set
              to, can automatically highlight the text being searched for. In
              addition, the Find method can be set to look for whole word matches as
              opposed to mere text matches (this lets you find all of the "the" words
              without finding it in the middle of "mother" or "father" for example).
              And, also in addition, it can be set to search between a start and end
              position within the file, so you can narrow your search to a specific
              area of the text if desired. You should check it out in the help files.

              Rick - MVP

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