Scrollbar behaviour in textbox ?

[Guest]

I have a textbox with vertical scollbar property on. When the box contains more data than will fit, the scroll bars are not visible until the user clicks in the textbox
The textbox is enabled and locked since the user cannot edit the contents
Is this behaviour normal
Is there any way to display the scrollbar whether the user clicks in the control or not
The way it is now, the user may not be aware there is more data

 

[Marshall Barton]

I have a textbox with vertical scollbar property on. When the box contains more data than will fit, the scroll bars are not visible until the user clicks in the textbox.
The textbox is enabled and locked since the user cannot edit the contents.
Is this behaviour normal?
Is there any way to display the scrollbar whether the user clicks in the control or not?
The way it is now, the user may not be aware there is more data!

Yes, that's normal. No, there's no simple way to display a
scroll bar when the control doesn't have the focus.

You may be able to get enough stuff from Stephen Leban's
site www.lebans.com to determine when there is more data
than the text box can display and hide or display a pseudo
scroll bar.