Hide/show scrollbar with dynamically loaded text from a .txt file

hi,

i’ve been trying to figure out how to hide and show the scrollbar component with dynamically loaded text depending on whether the text overflows or not.

the problem i am having is that TextField.maxscroll keeps returning 1 because it is being performed before the text is loaded into the textfield. here is the code i am working with:

loadVariables(“copy.txt”, this);
scrollbar._visible = (text.maxscroll > 1);

how can i solve this?