how-to limit edit box text lengths

[mark smit]

Hello,

does anybody know the proper way to limit the length of text in
an edit box to ### number of characters? This is for a database
application that has limited text fields.

Thank you!

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[Semen Matusovski]

Mark --
look EM_LIMITTEXT message

   #Compile Exe
   #Register None
   #Dim All
   #Include "Win32Api.Inc"

   %ID_TextBox =  101
   Function PbMain
      Local hDlg As Long
      Dialog New 0, "10 symbols only",,, 100, 50, %WS_SYSMENU Or %WS_CAPTION To hDlg
      Control Add TextBox, hDlg, %ID_TextBox, "", 10, 15, 80, 15
      Control Send hDlg, %ID_TEXTBOX, %EM_LIMITTEXT, 10, 0
      Dialog Show Modal hDlg
   End Function

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[mark smit]

Thank you ever so much Semen!

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