Text Box Lenght

[RoccoJay]

I'd like to know how to lenghten a text box after a program is already finished. I use "User-Defined Database".

For example:

Type RecipeData
RecipeName as string * 15
etc.
End Type

How can lenghten that Recipe field to 25?

 

[HarleyQuinn]

I'm not sure what you mean by

after a program is already finished

You've finished writing it?

I'm also not sure if you want to increase the length of the string in your User Type you've created (which would be to change the * 15 to * 25), alter a textbox or lengthen the max length of a field in a database.

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[strongm]

If your string can change length then one also has to wonder why it is defined as a fixed length string in the first place ...

 

[AndyGroom]

If your database is based on user-defined data types and there is already data in the database you can't alter the lengths of the strings without losing your data.

For example, if you increase the recipe length by 10 bytes it'd shift all the other fields along by 10 bytes and you'd most likely get 'Out of memory' when trying to read the file.

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[Tom4511]

You may, however, convert the data by defining a new UDT. Open the existing data file and read/save to the new.