Microsoft KB Archive/172088

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FIX: SelText in Edit Box Limited to 255 Characters

Article ID: 172088

Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q172088

SYMPTOMS

In Visual FoxPro 3.x and 5.x for Windows and Visual FoxPro 3.0b for the Macintosh, the SelText property for an Editbox selects only up to 255 characters.

RESOLUTION

The workaround is to use the SUBSTR function as illustrated below:

   SelectedText = SUBSTR(ThisForm.edit1.Value, ;
                         ThisForm.edit1.SelStart + 1, ;
                         ThisForm.edit1.SelLength)
                

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This has been corrected in Visual FoxPro 6.0.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a program with the following code:

         PUBLIC x
         x=CREATEOBJECT('form1')
         x.Show
   
         DEFINE CLASS form1 AS form
   
            Top = 0
            Left = 0
            Height = 250
            Width = 425
            DoCreate = .T.
            Caption = "Form1"
            Name = "Form1"
   
            ADD OBJECT edit1 AS editbox WITH ;
              Height = 229, ;
              Left = 11, ;
              Top = 10, ;
              Width = 276, ;
              Name = "Edit1"
   
            ADD OBJECT command1 AS commandbutton WITH ;
              Top = 25, ;
              Left = 300, ;
              Height = 27, ;
              Width = 84, ;
              Caption = "Click Me", ;
              Name = "Command1"
   
            PROCEDURE edit1.Init
              This.HideSelection = .F.
              This.Value = REPLICATE( "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", 15 )
              This.SelStart = 0
              This.SelLength = LEN( This.Value )
            ENDPROC
   
            PROCEDURE command1.Click
              =MESSAGEBOX("SelLegth "+STR(Thisform.edit1.SelLength))
              =MESSAGEBOX("SelText "+STR(LEN(Thisform.edit1.SelText)))
              =MESSAGEBOX(Thisform.edit1.SelText)
            ENDPROC
   
         ENDDEFINE

2. Run the .prg file and click the CLICK ME button.

The second message box shows only 255 characters for the SelText property instead of 390.

Additional query words: kbvfp600fix

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbcode KB172088

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