In addition, there is no error or warning when you try to write over the maximum amount. Of course, none of this is in the Delphi 5 help. (The help actually says that strings can be up to 2GB.)

It appears that TMemo is actually a Windows control and, therefore, the amount of data it can hold depends on the operating system - ie, it will vary from platform to platform. In the Windows API help - an edit control can have 65,535 bytes max, see EM_SETLIMITTEXT.

If you need a component that holds more data, use TRichEdit. I have verified that this component can handle over 500 Kb. (There is no built-in right click popup menu, and you may want to set PlainText to true.)

Lines (based on TStrings) is the most important property - it actually holds the text. This also stores large amounts of text - as long as you don't need to view it.

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