Hi Jeff,
the problem lies in the fact that the scrolled-text is only a container around the contained textbox widget. So for configuration, you need to configure that widget rather than the scrolled-textbox. You can access it via its textbox slot. So I would write something like: (let* ((textframe (make-instance 'frame)) (textbox (make-instance 'scrolled-text :master textframe)) (text (textbox textbox)))
(configure text :width 20 :height 30 :background :white)
once you got the scrolled-text widget packet, you are really only interested in its contained textbox.
HTH, Peter