FIX: SelText in Edit Box Limited to 255 Characters (172088)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0b
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0a
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Macintosh 3.0b
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.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:5/12/2003
Keywords:kbbug kbcode kbfix KB172088 kbAudDeveloper
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