Force Textbox Scrollbars Visible

[Lightning]

Does anyone know of a way to force a textbox on a form to always display the scrollbars?

The default behaviour is that a textbox will only display scrollbars when it is the active control. I need to display a textbox with some Help info for the users while the focus remains with the control the user selected. Since some of the Help comments are longer than the available space for my textbox, I need to show the users that there is more text that they can scroll to.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Lightning

 

[PHV]

Have you tried something like this ?
Me![textbox name].ScrollBars = 2

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Lightning]

Thanks PHV, but that only works if the textbox has the focus. I need it to display the scrollbars whether the textbox has the focus or not

Lightning

 

[dRahme]

Hello, I do not think you can change the scrollbar default behavior.

I might try using a label to notify a user when there is more available information in the form's OnCurrent property.

if len(txt1)> 50 then me.lblNotify.caption = "Scroll down to see help information."
end if

 

[Lightning]

dRahme
Thanks, I had come to that conclusion as well. I worked around the problem by setting the textbox onto a subform and sizing it to fit, then using the subform's scrollbar to display the text. Fiddly, but it works.

Thanks again to you and PHV for your help.
Lightning