moving to next line in multiline text box after reaching 70char

[prakashleo]

hi to all
I am using vb 6.0
I want to move to the next line in the text box after reaching text length 70 characters can any one help me

[willakawill]

hi to all
I am using vb 6.0
I want to move to the next line in the text box after reaching text length 70 characters can any one help me

Hi. If you set the multiline property of the textbox to true and set the width to accommodate 70 characters this will work.
Good luck

[Killer42]

Hi. If you set the multiline property of the textbox to true and set the width to accommodate 70 characters this will work.

Note though, for this to work you would have to set the textbox to a non-proportional font so that the characters are all the same width.

Even then, a fixed width like this can be hard to achieve, because Windows likes to do word-wrapping, so words will often jump down to the next line.

[prakashleo]

thank u for ur reply
how can i set the textbox to non-proportional font

[willakawill]

thank u for ur reply
how can i set the textbox to non-proportional font

Killer means something like Courier New.
Unless you need the textbox to be exactly 70 characters across this is not important.

[prakashleo]

Killer means something like Courier New.
Unless you need the textbox to be exactly 70 characters across this is not important.

ya i tried it now and it works thank u
and one more thing i am going to save this in ms access database before that i have to validate wheather each lines ended with comma or fullstop in that textbox because i have to cut the lines with less than or equal to 70 characters and it should be meaning full.
please help me to do this
thank u

[prakashleo]

ya i tried it now and it works thank u
and one more thing i am going to save this in ms access database before that i have to validate wheather each lines ended with comma or fullstop in that textbox because i have to cut the lines with less than or equal to 70 characters and it should be meaning full.
please help me to do this
thank u

[Killer42]

ya i tried it now and it works thank u
and one more thing i am going to save this in ms access database before that i have to validate wheather each lines ended with comma or fullstop in that textbox because i have to cut the lines with less than or equal to 70 characters and it should be meaning full.
please help me to do this

I think this is going to be more complicated than you expect.

So far you have not done anything to the text. Setting the width of the textbox, and the font, only affects how it is shown on the screen - there are no "line breaks" in the text (you can demostrate this by using Debug.Print to print the text to the immediate window). So it will be tough to work out where you want the commas or full stops.

It sounds as though you might have to independently re-create the word wrapping code, or something.