No scrollbars for dynamically loaded HTML

[Eric Tietze]

Let me begin by saying I'm fairly new to flash. I'm using CS5 and AS3. I'm trying to build a page to load CSS styled HTML into a dynamic text field. I have all of it loading and the css styles applying properly. The problem I'm having is that I cannot get scrollbars to showup on the text block once the HTML is loaded. I can scroll it by selecting it with the mouse, but that's it. I've tried attaching a UIScrollBar, it sizes properly, snaps to the right side of the field and has the text field as the Target Name, but when I test the movie the scroll bar doesn't function.

Here is the AS3 code for my page if that helps at all.

var _style:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();

var _css:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
_css.load(new URLRequest("style.css"));
_css.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, StyleLoaded, false, 0, true);

var _text:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); 
_text.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, TextComplete, false, 0, true); 

function StyleLoaded($e:Event):void 
{
    _css.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, StyleLoaded);

    _style.parseCSS(_css.data);

    _text.load(new URLRequest("text.txt"));
} 

function TextComplete($e:Event):void 
{
_text.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, TextComplete); 

    _textField.styleSheet = _style;
    _textField.htmlText   = _text.data; 
}