Limiting the amount of text in textbox

[Trancedified]

Hello,

Quick question is there any property I can alter to limit the amount of text that can be entered in by the user?

This is for Dates to avoid the "overflow" runtime error.


Chris

[MartinLiss]

You can either use a date mask in a MaskedEdit control or set the MaxLength property of a textbox to whatever you want.

[Madboy]

Originally posted by MartinLiss
You can either use a date mask in a MaskedEdit control or set the MaxLength property of a textbox to whatever you want.

Is there no limit to setting your own MaxLength? I.e can you have more text than a RTF or is there a memory limit like 32Kb or something?

[MartinLiss]

I think the limit of a textbox is 32K but the Trancedified is asking about a date.

[Trancedified]

thx for the posts it worked, setting the maxlenth to 10

[peet]

limit is 64 k for a textbox... but does it tell you that when loading files bigger than 64 K ?? ohhh....no.... just chops it off at the end and pretends nothing happened

[sw_is_great]

I remember loading big text files (definitely more than 64k)
when I used to be in college and a newbie to vb(vb5).

It used to load without giving any error.

[peet]

yes, it loads with no errors, but it chops off whatever is after the first 64 k

sick really... should have given some kind of error...

[Grimfort]

You may be better off using a date picker control. It does it all for you with a nice diary screen if you wanted it.