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Making a Form with a Scrollbar?

thewill2live
I was reading through the Allegro SKILL Reference guide and noticed that VARIABLE formtypes are not supported. Is there some other way I can make a form with a scrollbar? I need to display alot of text and the window extends outside of the visible part of the screen (so that the bottom buttons are off screen). Is there a way to get a scrollbar into the form so that the text scrolls instead of making a huge screen? 
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  • Thanks guys, but I think I was a little vague when I explained my issue. Here's a more in depth explanation. I have a list of entries that I am outputting to a file and want to show it on a form before I actually write the file so that the user could make any adjustments desired. My issue was that if the amount of text that prints out happens to be 60 lines or something like that, I wanted it to scroll in the screen instead of extending the screen (because at that point the screen could extend past the visible area). So the option I ended up going with was making a Grid. Because putting a grid seems to automatically put in scroll bars in the vertical and horizontal directions. This is working out for me on this project but thanks again for your suggestions because they ended up being useful for another program that I'm writing.
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  • Thanks guys, but I think I was a little vague when I explained my issue. Here's a more in depth explanation. I have a list of entries that I am outputting to a file and want to show it on a form before I actually write the file so that the user could make any adjustments desired. My issue was that if the amount of text that prints out happens to be 60 lines or something like that, I wanted it to scroll in the screen instead of extending the screen (because at that point the screen could extend past the visible area). So the option I ended up going with was making a Grid. Because putting a grid seems to automatically put in scroll bars in the vertical and horizontal directions. This is working out for me on this project but thanks again for your suggestions because they ended up being useful for another program that I'm writing.
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