How to detect length of text in dynamic text field?

[MungoBBQ]

Hi,

I've got a movie clip containing a dynamic text field and two buttons used to scroll the text up and down inside the movie clip. The text is loaded dynamically from a database.

Now, I want to hide the scroll buttons if the loaded text fits inside the dynamic text field without scrolling. How can I detect whether the text fits or not?

Grateful for any help!

//Mans

[norie40]

textboxes have a property called 'maxscroll' if it is set to 1 then it fits; if it is greater than 1 it scrolls. so you can do somethign like this:

code:

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_root.scrollbar1._visible = (_root.txtBox.maxscroll > 1);

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[MungoBBQ]

Thanks, that worked like a charm!

[light_in_tunel]

now i'm the one with same problem.. that seems to work only for 2 possibilites:
if there's text (even in a lengh that doesn't need to be scrolled; (maxscroll = 1)
if there isn't text at all; (maxscroll = 0)
But i want tha scrollbar to stay invisble if there is short text that doesn't need to be scrolled.

Thank you in advance

EDIT: i've realized by now that i always get MAXSCROLL = 1 even if nothing is loaded!....