Scrollbar with dynamic text field?

[Handycam]

I have a dynamic text field, multi-line. I have attached a scrollbar component to it via drag and drop.

It is empty but gets text dumped into it via AS's appendText() method when the user clicks a button.

It works, but if there are more lines than what fits into the text field, the scroll bar does not "activate", and allow the user to scroll to see all of it.

I'm sure I am missing something simple here, can anyone please help. Thanks.

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

Use the scrollbar's update() method after text is appended.

[Handycam]

Thanks, I figured it was something simple.

[Ned Murphy]

Using the help docs in Flash is simple... that's how I found it.

[toothbox24]

I keep trolling through these threads but can't figure out my version of this same problem:

-AS3 in Flash CS5

-dynamic, multi line text box (nested inside of a movie clip, which is placed on the stage)

-scrollbar component

Text is loading fine, scrollbar component is linked, but does not scroll. I'm using the same text box over and over, loading different lengths of text (some of which needs to scroll) through xml.

I'm not sure how to get this to work. Looking through the flash help documents I either can't find the solution, or just don't know what to look for - and can't figure out how to apply the update() command that has been mentioned in these threads...

Any help/direction appreciated!