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How to set textbox size to fit a number of characters and lines

I want i textbox to fit a specic amount of chars and lines. I'm using font Courier New, where all the letter has the same width. Since different DPI-setting changes the font-size I want to set the textbox width to fit a specific amount of characters when the textbox is loaded.

Any suggestions?

I've tried to use MeasureSstring but thats not wokring 100% correct for diffrent number of charcters.
Apr 17 '08 #1
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smartchap
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Suppose you want 40 characters in a line then may use the following statement:

TextBox1.Width=40*TextWidth("A")
TextBox1.Multiline=True 'may be use in design view.
Apr 17 '08 #2

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