I'm running Ubuntu 12.04/perl 5.14.2/wxPerl 0.9903/wxWidgets 2.8.11, which means GTK 3. I'm just calling SetValue, and strings larger than this limit don't appear. Don't see this behaviour under OpenSuse 10 SP 2/perl 5.8.8/wxPerl 0.91/wxWidgets 2.8.10. Thanks, -- Ian MacdonaldThread Next