Is there any way to force a mutiline entry field to accept a maximum of 80 characters per line?
03 WS-PROBLEM PIC X(80) OCCURS 07.
ENTRY-FIELD 3-D ID 116 COL 23 MULTILINE LINES 7
SIZE 80 CELL USE-RETURN MAX-LINES 7 MAX-TEXT 560
USING MULTIPLE WS-PROBLEM.
My current code only checks for max lines and max text, but not max text per line.
I did a simple display my-screen / accept my-screen based on the screen section
01 my-screen.
05 ef-1 ENTRY-FIELD 3-D ID 116 COL 23 MULTILINE LINES 7
SIZE 80 CELL USE-RETURN MAX-LINES 7 MAX-TEXT 560
USING MULTIPLE WS-PROBLEM.

I can only put in 65 characters per line before the characters go into the next line.
I did a simple display my-screen / accept my-screen based on the screen section
01 my-screen.
05 ef-1 ENTRY-FIELD 3-D ID 116 COL 23 MULTILINE LINES 7
SIZE 80 CELL USE-RETURN MAX-LINES 7 MAX-TEXT 560
USING MULTIPLE WS-PROBLEM.

I can only put in 65 characters per line before the characters go into the next line.
I added this to my program
display standard graphical window
lines 50 size 110 user-colors.
the line accepts 79 characters before advancing

I added this to my program
display standard graphical window
lines 50 size 110 user-colors.
the line accepts 79 characters before advancing

Thanks for the reply.
Actually, I did try this before but was hoping for a better solution. Looks like I have no choice.
As I know, this method also requires a fixed font as characters have different widths.
So how do I set a fixed font width for the entry field? I found something like this but could not get it.
https://community.microfocus.com/t5/Extend-and-AcuCOBOL-Forum/archive-Multiline-Entry-Fields-Redux/m-p/1710616
Thanks for the reply.
Actually, I did try this before but was hoping for a better solution. Looks like I have no choice.
As I know, this method also requires a fixed font as characters have different widths.
So how do I set a fixed font width for the entry field? I found something like this but could not get it.
https://community.microfocus.com/t5/Extend-and-AcuCOBOL-Forum/archive-Multiline-Entry-Fields-Redux/m-p/1710616
In your runtime configuration file set this:
DEFAULT_FONT FIXED