Like a dog with a poisoned bone???



Tom Ogilvy wrote:

You were persistent. I will give you that <g

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"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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Thank you for your support! <bg

(It's still more fun to answer the question I read--not the question that
was
written!)

Tom Ogilvy wrote:

RTP <g

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"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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It looks like the VBA inputbox is 254 characters.

Please ignore the previous message.



Dave Peterson wrote:

And if you're really concerned about the length of the string
returned,
why use
application.inputbox at all.

You're probably not getting a number, formula, range, ....

RB Smissaert wrote:

Was caught out by the fact that the maximum length of the Prompt
in
Application.InputBox is much less than in the
regular InputBox. The trouble was that the error you get is
Runtime
error
13: Type mismatch, so I was looking at the
datatypes of the different arguments, but the trouble is not with
those.
The other trouble was that this seems to be mentioned nowhere.

It looks the maximum lenght of the Prompt with
Application.InputBox is
256:

Sub test()

Dim i As Long
Dim lResult As Long
Dim strResult As String

On Error GoTo PAST1
For i = 245 To 400
SendKeys "{ENTER}", False
lResult = Application.InputBox(String(i, "x"), "title", 10,
Type:=1)
Next

PAST1:
MsgBox i, , "maximum prompt length with Application.InputBox"
MsgBox i, , "maximum prompt length with Application.InputBox"

On Error GoTo PAST2
For i = 200 To 10000
SendKeys "{ENTER}", False
strResult = InputBox(String(i, "x"), "title", "a")
Next

PAST2:
MsgBox i, , "maximum prompt length with InputBox"
MsgBox i, , "maximum prompt length with InputBox"

End Sub

Haven't found the maximum yet with the regular InputBox, but it is
much
more.

Is this is a known problem? I suppose it is.
Is there a workaround? I suppose not.

RBS

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