BUG: SelText in Edit Box Limited to 255 Characters

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Macintosh, version 3.0b

SYMPTOMS

In Visual FoxPro 3.x and 5.x for Windows and Visual FoxPro 3.0b for the Macintosh, the SelText property for an Editbox selects only up to 255 characters.

RESOLUTION

The workaround is to use the SUBSTR function as illustrate below:

   SelectedText = SUBSTR(ThisForm.edit1.Value, ;
                         ThisForm.edit1.SelStart + 1, ;
                         ThisForm.edit1.SelLength)

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a program with the following code:

         PUBLIC x
         x=CREATEOBJECT('form1')
         x.Show
   

         DEFINE CLASS form1 AS form
   

            Top = 0
            Left = 0
            Height = 250
            Width = 425
            DoCreate = .T.
            Caption = "Form1"
            Name = "Form1"
   
            ADD OBJECT edit1 AS editbox WITH ;
              Height = 229, ;
              Left = 11, ;
              Top = 10, ;
              Width = 276, ;
              Name = "Edit1"
   
            ADD OBJECT command1 AS commandbutton WITH ;
              Top = 25, ;
              Left = 300, ;
              Height = 27, ;
              Width = 84, ;
              Caption = "Click Me", ;
              Name = "Command1"
   
            PROCEDURE edit1.Init
              This.HideSelection = .F.
              This.Value = REPLICATE( "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", 15 )
              This.SelStart = 0
              This.SelLength = LEN( This.Value )
            ENDPROC
   
            PROCEDURE command1.Click
              =MESSAGEBOX("SelLegth "+STR(Thisform.edit1.SelLength))
              =MESSAGEBOX("SelText "+STR(LEN(Thisform.edit1.SelText)))
              =MESSAGEBOX(Thisform.edit1.SelText)
            ENDPROC
   
         ENDDEFINE
   
   

2. Run the .prg file and click the CLICK ME button.

Keywords          : FxprgClassoop kbcode
Version           : MACINTOSH:3.0b; WINDOWS:3.0,3.0b,5.0,5.0a
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug