EditBox

The EditBox is Visual FoxPro's answer to the @ ... EDIT of Xbase-gone-by. It provides an area for freeform text editing, complete with scrolling, tabs and so forth.An edit box can be based on a memo field, a character field or variable, or just a literal character string.

Property	Value	Purpose
AddLineFeeds	Logical	Indicates whether a linefeed character (Chr(10)) should be added after each return character (Chr(13)) when data is transferred to the ControlSource or the control loses focus.
AllowTabs	Logical	Indicates whether Tabs can be entered.
Format	Character	Specifies Xbase-style formatting functions.
HideSelection	Logical	Indicates whether selected text retains its highlight when focus moves to another control.
MaxLength	Numeric	Specifies the maximum number of characters that can be entered.
ScrollBars	Numeric	Indicates whether the edit box has scrollbars.
SelStart, SelLength	Numeric	Indicate the starting position and length of the selected text.
SelText	Character	The currently selected text.

Like other controls, EditBox acquired the MouseEnter and MouseLeave events in VFP 7.

Example

* Set an edit box (Edit1) to have no scroll bars, 
* to accept tabs and to accept no more than 50 characters.
ThisForm.Edit1.ScrollBars = 0
ThisForm.Edit1.AllowTabs = .T.
ThisForm.Edit1.MaxLength = 50

If you need to format the text within the edit box, allowing things like italics or bold, consider using the RichText ActiveX control instead.