problem with scrollbar on static text

[Sjizo]

Hey all,

while reading through the forums I came acros this
post. In it there was a post of CE that you can add a vertical scrollbar to a static text widget by calling the function setVerticalScrollbarEnabled(true). So I tried this in my Lua script

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winMgr:getWindow("Root/ConsoleWindow"):setVerticalScrollbarEnabled(true)

where Root/ConsoleWindow is a static text widget
and I get the following error in the CEGUI.log

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18/12/2006 15:16:38 (Error)   Exception: Unable to execute Lua script file: '../datafiles/lua_scripts/consoleGui.lua'

[string "../datafiles/lua_scripts/consoleGui.lua"]:62: attempt to call method 'setVerticalScrollbarEnabled' (a nil value)


Have the scrollbars been taken away from the static text again? Or am I doing something wrong. I am using CEGUI 0.5

[Sjizo]

after speaking to Dalfy on irc I tried a diferent approach. I tried to use the setProperty function.

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winMgr:getWindow("Root/ConsoleWindow"):setProperty("VerticalScrollbar","true")

In the log I get the following error message

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19/12/2006 17:26:04 (Error)   Exception: There is no Property named 'VerticalScrollbar' available in the set.
19/12/2006 17:26:04 (Error)   Exception: System::executeScriptFile - An exception was thrown during the execution of the script file.

I also tried verticalScrollbar instead of VerticalScrollbar but it had the same result. Can anyone tell me what the correct way to do this is?

[Pompei2]

Hello, I got the same issue, did you find any solution ? anybody can help us ?

Edit:
There is one difference: i don't even get these errors ! the scrollbars just don't show up. And i'm using multilined text.

[spannerman]

Yes, I think the property has changed at some point. I think it is now VertScrollbar, as in:

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statTxt->setProperty("VertScrollbar", "True");

[Pompei2]

Yeah true i figured it out yesterday evening everything works fine now, thank you

[Sjizo]

I did a "kind of" solution. I just tested how many lines I could fit into my text field and would then just delete the first line when too many lines were visible.
Thanx for this answer, it would look much better if it works. Gonna try it later.