c# textbox limit

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Hi there,
I'm having a strange problem with a textbox.
When I fill-in the textbox line by line I see that there is not limit in the number of lines or chars (almost) but when I use the EngMatLib to evaluate a Matlab exrpession (which returns a 4000 chars string) I see that the textbox is not able to show the entire string and truncates it.
It looks like there is a limit of about 4000 chars per single line of a textbox. How can I overcome this king of problem?

thanx in advance

Luca

Posted 26-Oct-10 0:52am

Lukkino

Updated 10-Mar-21 17:54pm

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Solution 3

Unless you have changed it, the MaxLength for a single line in a TextBox defaults to 32K. It may not be the textbox which is giving you this problem, try pasting your data into notepad or similar and see if it works there first.
Alternatively, is your text multiline, and your textbox single line?

Posted 26-Oct-10 0:58am

OriginalGriff

Solution 2

TextBox MaxLength is 32767,
Set TextBox1 MultiLine as True
And Run your app.

Posted 26-Oct-10 0:58am

Pawan Kiran

Updated 26-Oct-10 1:04am

v3

Solution 1

Simply set the MAXLength property to the desired length you required

Posted 26-Oct-10 0:54am

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Tarun.K.S · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-26T01:00:00

Solution 4

hi Luca, well i found two links that can help you get an idea about the number of characters that can be stored.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/44bbe246-8c26-4bd3-bc7f-e08f784c23fd

http://www.dotnetmonster.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/dotnet-csharp/14791/TextBox-Capacity[^]

Posted 26-Oct-10 1:00am

Tarun.K.S

Updated 26-Oct-10 1:11am

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DaveAuld 26-Oct-10 7:05am

First link is broken....

Tarun.K.S 26-Oct-10 7:11am

Thanks DaveAuld! i have updated the answer.

Lukkino 26-Oct-10 8:19am

Thanx Tarun,
but it looks like is a problem related to the EngMatLib library, because wrote a test code filling a string with 18K chars and assigning this string to a textbox.text with no problems. May be the problem is the way the EngMatLib.evaluate string is formatted.

Tarun.K.S 26-Oct-10 8:43am

i suspect that might be the reason!