List Fields: Workaround for Disabled Scrollbars
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>When the contents of a list field are modified - perhaps especially when the
>modification comes in the form of setting the htmlText of the field - the
>display is not always updated correctly. In particular, the scrollbar is
>often disabled - in a tighter range of circumstances, the field is drawn
>either with the wrong background colour, or as transparent (haven't yet
>figured out which).

A workaround for now is to use one of the following:
focus field "Whatever"
or
set the traversalOn of field "Whatever" to false
set the traversalOn of field "Whatever" to true

Posted 4/16/2002 by Jeanne DeVoto to the Improve-Revolution List   (edited for clarity)