I've run into this before. It appears to be a bug with leading. If you set it to zero, this won't happen, but the lines of text will be a little too close together. You can probably monkey patch it.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Prescott" <michael.r.presc...@...> wrote: > > If you have a Text field with selectable text, it's possible to scroll the > content by clicking on the text and dragging downwards. This leaves (in one > simple case I've made) the top line of text obscured, and an apparent blank > line at the bottom. > > Is there any way to prevent this without making the text non-selectable? > > Michael >