[AccessD] BIG textbox problem

How about using Total Access  Memo from FMS
http://www.fmsinc.com/Products/memo/index.html
There is a download demo, I dont know limit should be same as RTF


Bruce Bruen wrote:

>That's a problemm with a BIG textbox actually.
>
>Some of the rows have memo fields with > 32K characters in them.  They
>display OK and can be navigated with the keyboard and scrollbars OK. Now
>the yewsers want to use the mouse wheel to scroll through the textbox on
>one form.
>
>This function would not suffer from the usual mousewheel problems as the
>textbox is on a modal popup form that is filtered to only ever, ever
>show one record.  
>
>So I have prototyped the solution using a really rough method of using
>the mousewheel event Count parameter and the textbox.selstart property.
>Having started to review this prototype it works (sort of) OK until we
>get these records with superbig contents. As soon as the selstart gets
>to 32thousandwhatever further wheeling throws an overflow error ( as
>selstart is an Integer!)
>
>So I am asking whether there is any other ways to implement what they
>want?  I have given the requester enough (free) support time on this as
>it is so I am looking for any quick and easy solution ideas to sell them
>on the final solution.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Tia
>Bruce
>
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