Hello Bharat,

Your elements would need to use a fixed width font. That way a "W" is the same width as a "i". Then find out how many characters it takes to fill your element. Divide the width of your element by the number of characters. Remember the number that you get.

In your programming use @Len(ThisElement) multiply it by the number you found earlier and check it against @Width(ThisElement). If it is greater than open the editor.

This will work fine for the On Element Entry event, but if you put it in the On Element Immediate Change event you are going to have some problems. When the Editor opens the cursor is at the beginning of the editor.

So If you go to type in "This is a Test" and the editor opens after the first T in Test, you are going to end up with "estThis is a T", unless you stop once it opens, hit the end key and continue typing.

-Ray

Mark and Ray,
Thank you for your fast response.  Fixed width fonts does not seem like good choice especially when you are working under Windows environment.  I did not explore SBasic commands width() and height() to dynamically grow a LE for this purpose. I thought that @printstring command has measure only part in there and it measures the text accurately for printing purpose so probably something in that line is available to screen and element also. In the meantime I shall look into width() and height (). Thank you.