VB6 Print Problem

[Probie]

Hi, I am running VB6 and have a text box set to multi line and both scroll bars set. The problem I am having is that when I click on print to print the text box I end up with a copy of the text being place in the text box and then printing.

txtCm.SelStart = Len(txtCm) ' set the starting insertion point at the end of the text
txtCm.SelText = txtCm + vbCrLf ' add a string plus the carriage return

txtCm.SelStart = Len(txtCm) ' set the starting insertion point at the end of the text
txtCm.SelText = "" + vbCrLf ' add a string plus the carriage return

Found the problem with duplicate text being printed. I removed the txtCm from the second line of code and replaced it with "" marks. But now I have a problem with how to control the length of the line of text that is allowed to be entered in the text box.

The txtCm is the name of my txtbox. I would really appreciate the aid of you specialists in this matter. ~ Probie

[Amahdy]

your problem is here :
"txtCm.SelText = txtCm + vbCrLf "
before this line you are at the end of the text , this line append to the text a new version of it "txtCm" plus "vbCrlf" ... so u must not reput it again ..
really both of the two lines work individually , I mean u can use the first line only OR the second only , but the first line still need to append the vbcrlf .. and the second doesn't need to take the .seltext property :

txtCm.SelStart = len(txtCm)
txtCm.SelText = vbcrlf

or

txtCm = txtCm + vbcrlf

the difference here is in memory stress and the text largest capacity .

[Amahdy]

Ah u have edited the post when I'm posting .. okey tell me u need to auto configure the maxlength when typing or before printing ?

the textbox can make this automatically if you set one only scrollbar "vertically" and with a proper textbox width , u can get what u want .. the problem only if u want the maxlength greater than your form width or the text font size change at runtime ...

[Probie]

Okay Amahdy, I think you answered all my questions. Yes it is working just fine now, your coding and information have helped me a lot. Thank you very much ~ Probie