Dynamic Text Area with no scrollbars question

Hello All,
I have an application that has a dynamic text area that pulls in XML content and i would like to have the text area grow, rather than use a scrollbar and i am wondering if anyone has done this or can point me in the right direction? I have dont quite a few searches and only find examples on how to do this in AS3, and i am using AS2 and CS3.
Thanks in advance!

If you are using AS2, then if you manually stretch the width of the textfield to what you want it to be, you can use the following to have it automatically rezise itself height-wise to fit whatever text you assign to it, where tfield is whatever instance name you assign to the textfield in the example code...
tfield.autoSize = "left";
tfield.text = "whatever your xml file text is";

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