ScrollBars Property (ATextBox)

Returns or sets which scrollbars are displayed in the ATexbBox object.

Syntax

Object.ScrollBars [ = enATextbBoxScrollBars ]

The ScrollBars property syntax has the following parts:

 

Name

Type

Description

Object

ATextBox

ATextBox control

enATextbBoxScrollBars

enumATextBoxScrollBars

An integer specifying what style of scrollbars are displayed in the control. Applies only when MultiLine is TRUE.

Where

enumATextBoxScrollBars can be one of the following:

 

Name

Value

Description

atbNone

0*

No scroll bars are displayed.

atbHorizontal

1

A horizontal scroll bar is displayed.

atbVertical

2

A vertical scroll bar is displayed.

atbBoth

3

Both horizontal and vertical scroll bars are displayed.

Comments

This property have effect only when the MultiLine property is set to True.  

You must place a line break "\r\n" to a string in order to force a line break in your text. If the control is in MultiLine mode and a horizontal scrollbar is not visible than the text displayed in the control will be word wrap to the next lines even if the line break does not exist.

Example

The following statement appends string to the description text box depending on the scroll bar state:

if tbDesc.ScrollBars=atbVertical or tbDesc.ScrollBars=atbBoth

tbDesc.Text=GetDesc()

else

tbDesc.Text=GetDescFirstThreeLines()   ! can't scroll so append 3 lines

endif

The following statement sets the property value:

tbDesc.ScrollBars=atbVertical

Applies to

ATextBox

See Also

MultiLine