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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 February 2003]

I am trying to used a entry field with multiple lines
DISPLAY ENTRY-FIELD, 3-D
BOXED
LINE 1
POSITION 1
SIZE 40
LINES 3
MAX-LINES 3
MAX-TEXT 40
HANDLE IS entry-field
MODIFY ENTRY-HANDLE
no-autosel, use-return
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EVENT 201-EVENT THRU 201-EXIt


When i am entering the 3 line i do a enter and i received a message too many lines. I thought it was supposed to do the
event procedure and hit did not.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 February 2003]

I am trying to used a entry field with multiple lines
DISPLAY ENTRY-FIELD, 3-D
BOXED
LINE 1
POSITION 1
SIZE 40
LINES 3
MAX-LINES 3
MAX-TEXT 40
HANDLE IS entry-field
MODIFY ENTRY-HANDLE
no-autosel, use-return
vscroll-bar
EVENT 201-EVENT THRU 201-EXIt


When i am entering the 3 line i do a enter and i received a message too many lines. I thought it was supposed to do the
event procedure and hit did not.
Unfortunately there is no event nor exception for this. As the documentation states, the only action there is, is that a dialog box will show warning about the condition. Hence, no way to capture this programmatically.
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