Cangrow property set but not working

[Frank Reichenbacher]

I set up a 10 record database with one text field and a simple form to go
with it. I stuck ~80-100 characters of text in the fields and then set the
CanGrow property of the textbox (very much smaller than is needed to display
all the data in the field) to Yes. No matter what the size of the textbox
and the data in the field, or the other properties that I set, I cannot get
the textbox to change size at all. There are no other controls or any other
features on the form.

This would be a useful feature in a for-real database that I am developing
and I want to implement it.

What am I missing? I have used CanGrow/CanShrink successfully many times on
reports but it doesn't seem to have any effect in a form.

 

[fredg]

I set up a 10 record database with one text field and a simple form to go
with it. I stuck ~80-100 characters of text in the fields and then set the
CanGrow property of the textbox (very much smaller than is needed to display
all the data in the field) to Yes. No matter what the size of the textbox
and the data in the field, or the other properties that I set, I cannot get
the textbox to change size at all. There are no other controls or any other
features on the form.

This would be a useful feature in a for-real database that I am developing
and I want to implement it.

What am I missing? I have used CanGrow/CanShrink successfully many times on
reports but it doesn't seem to have any effect in a form.

Answered in m.p.a.forms.
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[Frank Reichenbacher]

Answered in m.p.a.forms.
Please don't multi-post.

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I did.


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