Character length of an editable fields

hi frnz,
I have created an editable field in an ALV report.My client wants the character length of this editable field as 1000.I have made the data type as 'STRINGS' and length as '1000', but still in this editable field i am able to feed only upto character length of 128 not beyond this value.The text which my client wants to feed is of 950 characters. Could anyone give some solution for this
Thanks
Praveen

Hi, i think you have to give intlen and outputlen in field catalog
FIELDCAT-INTLEN = 1000.
FIELDCAT-OUTPUTLEN = 1000.
Please check the doc of field catalog
[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/ff/4649a6f17411d2b486006094192fe3/content.htm]
Regards,
Ben

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