"The text is too long too be edited"

[paul]

Hi,

I want to display the contents of a memo field in a text
box on a form. The text can be very long, so I enabled a
vertical scroll bar for the text box.

To make the scroll bars appear, I have to click on the
text box. However, when I click on the text box, I get
the error "The text is too long to be edited", and the
data disappears from the text box.

AllowEdits for the form is false, and Locked for the text
box is true. I don't need to allow updates on this form.

If I set the enabled property of the text box to false,
the error disappears, but then it is impossible to make
the vertical scroll bar appear, so the user can't see all
the data.

Do you know how I can display the data using a scroll
bar, and avoid the error "The text is too long too be
edited"?

Thanks,
Paul

 

[medialint]

Instead of enabled, use locked (=true)

 

[Guest]

Actually I am setting Locked=true (see my original
posting). Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Paul