# \-- using the component scrollbar
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 19, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346 "2002-11-19T03:08:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Superfrappe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Superfrappe)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346/1 "2002-11-19T03:08:28Z")
Can anyone tell me how to use the component scrollbar? To make this work w/ a text field, do we need to attatch actionscript? I’m sure we do, like the scrollbars in flash 5, but… I’m confused. I’m just trying to attatch this scrollbar to my guestbook because the one I have doesn’t work!
Thanks for the help! 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346/2 "2002-11-19T03:13:24Z")
All I did to make my scroll bar was drag and drop. First I drew out my text box that I want to scroll, changed it to input text then dragged and dropped the scroll bar component on top of the text box. That’s what I remember doing, but I probably forgot something… Try that and see if it works. =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346/3 "2002-11-19T03:54:12Z")
hey electrongeek, thanks for your reply pal 🙂
I have the text area and scrollbar set up ok, and it is reading the text from a .txt file from my server ok, but the darn scrollbar won’t scroll! hmmm…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346/4 "2002-11-19T04:03:01Z")
May I take a look at your fla? Maybe if i mess around with it, I can get it to work. :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346/5 "2002-11-19T04:20:27Z")
absolutely :goatee:
[www.robhazelwood.com/test.fla](http://www.robhazelwood.com/test.fla)
Thanks for taking the time to check it out!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346/6 "2002-11-19T05:12:22Z")
Here you go Superfrappe. I played around with it and got it to scroll, but there are few glitches I wasn’t able to figure out. This is a temporary solution for now, atleast it scrolls. Hope that helps. Let me know after you downloaded the new fla so I can delete it from my server. =)
[www15.brinkster.com/ozzo481/test2.fla](http://www15.brinkster.com/ozzo481/test2.fla)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2002, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346/7 "2002-11-19T05:34:01Z")
There is a tutorial for scrolling dynamically loaded text here at kirupa.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346/8 "2002-11-19T06:16:18Z")
electrongeek you rock! 🙂 thanks again for helping me out! you can take it off your server now… may i ask what you did to fix it? i haven’t found any new actionscript…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-component-scrollbar/8346/9 "2002-11-19T06:34:25Z")
You’re gonna laugh when I tell you what I did. All I did was change your dynamic text box to a input text box and went into the text box and hit a bunch of returns to give it some room for your guestbook text to load into. I have no idea why it worked, but it worked, no fancy actionscripting there. 😛 I’m glad I was able to help you though even though it was a unconventional method.