Textbox limit - Visual Basic 4 / 5 / 6

Quack Boy

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.

Jul 17 '05 #1

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Noozer

> 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 ;)

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

Jul 17 '05 #2

Quack Boy

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:15:01 +0100, "Noozer" <no****@NOSPAMh otpop.com>
wrote:

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

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?

Jul 17 '05 #3

Rick Rothstein

> >You could use a RTFbox instead. Rightclick left toolbar ->
Components... ->

Check "Microsoft Rich Text Box" -> OK

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?

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

Jul 17 '05 #4

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