How do I make scrollable textbox?

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Hi everyone how to make scroll able text box? Thank you

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Check Multiline in Designer

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I have checked multiline option but when the text is very long is stucked can not see the bottom text

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Is your screen set to scrollable ?

Are you editing the text in the textbox ?

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The screen not set to scroll able.

The text box set to read only

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Hmmm, when set to Read Only it doesn't scroll, can't remember if this was always the case or if a bug has crept in. Will report up.

An alternative you can try is to use a vertical scrolling arrangement (VSA) and a label:

  1. Drag out a VSA. Set with to fill parent and height, to say, 30%
  2. Drag a label into the VSA.
  3. Set your text to the Label
  4. If the text overflows the height of the VSA then it will scroll
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Hmmm let me try. Thank you

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Android or iOS? I tested it on Android 17. No issue with a very long text.

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and with read only checked ?

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Not scrollable.

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Nah with read only checked, the textbox not scrollable

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Put it in a vertical scroll arrangement (Height = automatic).

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On Screen put a vertical scroll arrangement for your textbox set its height to 10% (or whatever you want), put a textbox into it, set textbox multiline to true.

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It works now. Thank you all

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And if you wanted to use the TextBox directly for some reason, that is also possible, but using an extension that disables text editing (without needing to set ReadOnly = true).

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And if MIT accepts my fix in the source, it will work natively. Because currently, ReadOnly works as well as Enabled, which is nonsense.

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