GUICtrlInput won't allow more characters than can be shown

[Graeme]

I have created a GUICtrlInput and it works well. My problem is that I wanted to allow for the user to input an addition which would take more characters than the length of the input but would resolve to less characters when the GUI is exited. Like 190000 + 200000+ 30000

I don't want to increase the size of the ctrl input. Is there a way of getting the input to accept more characters? I tried making it multiline and I tried a CtrlEdit but both gave the same problem. It seems that it may be possible to do it if I take off the SS_RIGHT or the ES_ MULTILINE. Is it possible to still have option to go beyond the limit of the input and have SS_RIGHT and ES_ Multiline?

[ahmet]

Have you tried with GUICtrlSetLimit() or _GUICtrlEdit_SetLimitText()?

[Musashi]

8 hours ago, Graeme said:

Is there a way of getting the input to accept more characters?

Do you mean something like this ? :

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiEdit.au3>

_Example()

Func _Example()
    Local $idEdit, $sRead, $sFilename

    ; Example : Read GDIPlus.au3 and show the code in an Edit control :
    $sFilename = StringRegExpReplace(@AutoItExe, "(?i)AutoIt3.exe$", "") & "Include\GDIPlus.au3"
    $sRead = FileRead($sFilename)

    GUICreate("Test : Huge Edit Control", 1200, 600)
    $idEdit = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 2, 2, 1194, 568)

    ; Gets the current text limit for an edit control :
    MsgBox(BitOR(4096, 64), "Info :", "Default Limit : Edit Control (Chars) = " & _GUICtrlEdit_GetLimitText($idEdit) & @CRLF)

    ; Sets a new text limit :
    _GUICtrlEdit_SetLimitText($idEdit, 1500000)
    MsgBox(BitOR(4096, 64), "Info :", "New Limit : Edit Control (Chars) = " & _GUICtrlEdit_GetLimitText($idEdit) & @CRLF)

    GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
    _GUICtrlEdit_AppendText($idEdit, $sRead)
    Do
    Until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
    GUIDelete()
EndFunc   ;==>_Example