To insert a name in an EF I was using:

LOCAL FN InsertText (fieldID%, @strPtr&, startPos%, endPos%)
  AUTOCLIP = 0
  teH& = TEHANDLE(fieldID%)                       'get field handle
  LONG IF teH&                                    'is handle valid, then
continue
    strLen% = PEEK(strPtr&)                       'get string length for
insertion
    CALL TESETSELECT (startPos%, endPos%, teH&)   'set selection in field
    CALL TEINSERT (strPtr& + 1, strLen%, teH&)    'insert text into field
    CALL INVALRECT (teH&..viewRect%)              'force fb to update field
  END IF
END FN

The problem was the scroll button never became active in the static EF.
Thought I had used this FN in something else I had done. But had used:

SETSELECT startPost%,startPost%
CALL TEINSERT(@placeThis$ + 1,LEN(placeThis$),WINDOW(_efHandle))

For some reason the scroll button worked doing things this way.

The other thing I was doing in a static scrolling EF was, list names when the
window was opened using:

 EDIT FIELD _EF1WClass9
 EDIT TEXT _geneva,9,0
 LONG IF gNumOfEntries% > 0
   FOR x = 0 TO gNumOfEntries% - 1
     eNum$ = FN CleanSTR$(bwlrInfo.entryNum%(x))
     lNm$ = bwlrInfo.lastName$(x)
     fNm$ = bwlrInfo.firstName$(x)
     avg$ = STR$(bwlrInfo.average%(x))
     IF bwlrInfo.entryNum%(x) <> bwlrInfo.origEntryNum%(x) THEN lNm$ = lNm$ +
" (r)"
     d$ = "(" + eNum$ + ") " + lNm$ + ", " + fNm$ + "  @ " + avg$ + CHR$(13)
     CALL TEINSERT(@d$ + 1,LEN(d$),WINDOW(_efHandle))
   NEXT
 END IF

The scroll button would never go active, when there were more names then would
fit into the visible region, until I resized the window.

Added the below and it got things working.

 AUTOCLIP = _False
 EDIT FIELD -_EF1WClass9,,,_noFramed
 (EDIT FIELD _EF1WClass9)'removed this line

[code from above to insert text goes here]

 teH& = TEHANDLE(WINDOW(_EF1WClass9))
 CALL INVALRECT (teH&..viewRect%)
 AUTOCLIP = _True
 EDIT FIELD -_EF1WClass9,,,_statNoFramed
 EDIT FIELD 0

That got things working. If someone sees a problem the above might cause
please let me know.

Thanks,
Al