flash mx scroller component

im using the flash mx scrollbar component, or tryin to, on a dynamic text box with html on and multiline, but it doesnt work when i drag it on there. the arrows dont appear on it when i drag it to stage. my friend showed me an fla and there is no difference in what we're doing, im not forget to assign the scroll bar the textfields name or anything like that, so im clueless to whats wrong. im loading the text from external txt files, btw, i dunno if that has anything to do with it, help would be greatly appreciated.

this is because the scrollbar gets initiallized before the text is loaded and so it's inactive. try the macromedia tut that show's how to load the text before initiallizing the scrollbar.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...t_scrollmx.htm

thanks, that was exactly what it was looking for, i had it figured out and working in 20 minutes, you're awesome