Changing the height of a Text Item Box in run time

[PatrickB101]

Is there away to change the text item box height in runtime?
If it is possible to do this based on how many character are in that exact same text box? The box will contain records and I want the box to adjust automaticly depending the number of character in that record. On Another note I am also trying to make the update "number of records display" property of a block update in real time. Is there a salution to these problems? If this is sorry I am very new with Oracle Developer. I have screen shots of the program if that would help.

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[lewisp]

To set the height of a text item (presuming you are talking Forms here) is

Set_Item_Property('block.item_name',HEIGHT,x);

where x is the height in pixels/points, depending on the coordination units you are using.

How to work out the number of characters? Lengthblock.item_name) should do it!