VB 6 and text box

what is the limit of characters that can ne put into a text box??

basically got a program that opens com port and displays, however after 24 hours it normally crashes think because it cant handle all data? is there a way of trapping this or any advice on the subject?

cheers

I always thought the Textbox couldn't handle more than 32kb of text. I would suggest a RichTextBox, as they can handle any amount of text, but just take a while to load large amounts of text.

chem

cheers will bear that in mind, will have a look tomoz see how my app worked over nite, cheers

I believe the TextBox limit is 64k

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Originally Posted by Megatron

I believe the TextBox limit is 64k

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it maybe in a 64 bit environment but, as far as MSDN says it is about 32...

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Originally Posted by MSDN

The Text setting for a TextBox control is limited to 2048 characters unless the MultiLine property is True, in which case the limit is about 32K.

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Cheers,

RyanJ

think you should post this in the Classic Visual Basic forum...

it would probably make it easier if every hour or so, you appended a log file and saved the data from the textbox in it, then cleared the textbox.