Hey guys,
I've a problem when it comes to adding a scrollbar to a text area.

the following code is meant to work:
Code:

set results [text $resultsBox.resuts1 -height 10 -width 80 -yscrollcommand "$resultsBox.ys set"] set sb [scrollbar $resultsBox.ys -command "$resultsBox.resuts1"]

however I get the following error:
Quote:

bad option "scroll": must be bbox, cget, compare, configure, debug, delete, dlineinfo, dump, edit, get, image, index, insert, mark, scan, search, see, tag, window, xview, or yview bad option "scroll": must be bbox, cget, compare, configure, debug, delete, dlineinfo, dump, edit, get, image, index, insert, mark, scan, search, see, tag, window, xview, or yview    while executing ".x.queryResultsFrm.res.resuts1 scroll 1 units"    ("uplevel" body line 1)    invoked from within "uplevel #0 $cmd scroll $amount units"    (procedure "ScrollByUnits" line    invoked from within "ScrollByUnits $w hv 1"    ("arrow2" arm line 1)    invoked from within "switch -- $element {      "arrow1"      {ScrollByUnits $w hv -1}      "trough1"      {ScrollByPages $w hv -1}      "trough2"      {ScrollByPages $w hv 1}      "arrow2"      {ScrollByUnit..."    (procedure "ScrollSelect" line 4)    invoked from within "ScrollSelect $w $element initial"    (procedure "tk::ScrollButtonDown" line 9)    invoked from within "tk::ScrollButtonDown .x.queryResultsFrm.res.ys 7 129"    (command bound to event)

can anyone understand why? I thought you could associate a scrollbar with a text area

Probably something to do with what's in your variables - I stripped it down to

text .results1 -height 10 -width 80 -yscrollcommand "gubbins set"
scrollbar .ys -command summat

which I sourced (and I added a pack too) and it set it up just fine - so I suspect that the problem lies in parts of the code / setup that you haven't shown us.

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