Scroll Bars in TextBox (VB6)

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I feel silly asking this question because I know I’ve done it in the past a thousand times. I have a TextBox and I want the vertical scroll bar to appear when the text length exceeds the size of the box. I have multiline set to true and vertical set in scroll bars. The scroll bar always appears with no text in it. What am I doing wrong? I even tried writing code in the on change event to try and set that property, but it gave me a runtime error that it is a read-only property (contrary to what the help file says).

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Hi, does it work if you set the scroll bars to NONE, ?

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No, it will wordwrap and page down but not display the scroll bar

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No, it will wordwrap and page down but not display the scroll bar

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I just tried this in VBA in Word 2002 and it did what I would expect.

I created a userform with a text box. Set Multiline to True and Scrollbars to fmScrollBarsBoth. The Vertical scroll bar only appeared when the text exceeded the height of the text box.

StuartR

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Stuart,

Can you reproduce this in native VB6?

Mike

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Stuart’s description works for me on a VBA userform, but in VB6, I get the behavior you describe – the vertical scroll bar is always visible. I think this is the “standard” behavior.

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Alright, I’ll just chock it up to another inconsistency between Microsoft’s developing products.

Thanks for identifying this for me Hans (and all).

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Alright, I’ll just chock it up to another inconsistency between Microsoft’s developing products.

Thanks for identifying this for me Hans (and all).

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Stuart’s description works for me on a VBA userform, but in VB6, I get the behavior you describe – the vertical scroll bar is always visible. I think this is the “standard” behavior.

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Stuart,

Can you reproduce this in native VB6?

Mike

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I just tried this in VBA in Word 2002 and it did what I would expect.

I created a userform with a text box. Set Multiline to True and Scrollbars to fmScrollBarsBoth. The Vertical scroll bar only appeared when the text exceeded the height of the text box.

StuartR

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