Character Count and displaying

[dweekley]

I am trying to display a textboxes character count as one is typing. The textbox is going to be limited.

Have tried different versions and events (On Change, On Keydown)

lblESTOPSCMNTSCNT.Caption = Len(Me!txtESTCMNTS & "")

txtESTOPSCMNTSCNT = Len(Me!txtESTCMNTS)

Can't seem to figure out what I'm missing.

TIA

[andy49]

Private Sub Form_Current()
'Used in the On Current event of the form
'to display character count when scrolling
'through each record
    Me.txtBookReview.SetFocus
    If Not IsNull(Me.txtBookReview.Text) Then
            Me.txtCharsUsed = Len(Me.txtBookReview.Text) & _
            " characters used in this review."
        Else
            Me.txtBookReview = 0
    End If
End Sub

got this from here

[dweekley]

Sweet. Thanks. Must be the text versus value. That and I did setfocus.