"ken" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have another dumb newbe question. I tried looking in the help but,
> maybe I'm using the wrong search criteria. Oh well. My question is
> this. I would like to add the value of  txtTimer1.Text to the end of
> my label text. What happens now is the text will scroll off the form.
> For example the txtTimer1.Text returns 1. 2. 3. 4. 5... etc.  What I
> would like is after a value is returned it displays that value only
> and not a sequence of values. I would like to truncate to 1's, 10's,
> and 100's. Can someone point me in the right direction. Thanks.
> Regards,
> Ken
>
> frmKDMmain.lblFueltankquantity.Text = _
>         frmKDMmain.lblFueltankquantity.Text & " " & _
>         txtTimer1.Text
>
>
>

>I'm not sure if I'm following you, but if I am this is what I would do.  If
>you know how long your initial label (say 15 characters long) you can
>Left$(label.text, 15) & space(2) & txtTime1.text.  This would keep writing
>over the old txtTime1.text information. 
>  Otherwise, if you don't know how long.  Move the length in a variable at
>start.
> Dim iLen as integer
> iLen = Len(label.text)
>
>Then move your timer text
>label.text = Left$(label.caption, iLen) & space(2) & txtTime1.text
>
>

>Andrew