Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Sat Dec 27 10:09:19 CST 2003
Hi Susan I had the Microsoft Rich Textbox Control 6.0 (SP4) in mind. OLE Class: RICHTEXT.RichtextCtrl.1 /gustav > Gustav, how would you use an RTF box -- are you suggesting a non-native > control, such as one of the MS Forms controls, something else, or is there > somewhere to turn a memo control into rtf? > Susan H. >> Hi David >> >> If your memo field is used on a form displaying single records only >> (not contiguous records), you may be able to use an RTF (Rich Text >> Format) box. Here SelStart and SelLength are Long. >> >> Applying this will, of course, turn your memo contents into RTF >> documents which may cause an avalanche of new problems ... >> On the other hand, an RTF box supports both drag and drop which may be >> advantageous if your users operate with memo field contents in the 32+ >> K area. >> >> /gustav >> >> >> >> > I use selstart to identify the end of a memo and set the >> >> > cursor there, (so user can launch straight into appending >> >> > text directly into the memo) however whenever the memo's >> >> > length is greater than the max integer value of 32K this >> >> > fails as it only works for integer values. How can one >> >> > position the cursor in a memo field that has number of >> >> > characters bet the 32 and 64K len? ..