Re: Progrmatically Scrolling a JTextArea in a JScrollPane to the last line

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From: Larry Maturo
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:00

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Someone sent me the answer to this, so I thought I would share it with
the group.

Given that you JTextArea is named MyTextArea and your JScrollPane
is named MyScrollPane you would use:

getMyScrollPane().getViewport().setViewPosition(new
Point(0,getMyTextArea().getMaximumSize().height));

-- Larry Maturo


Larry Maturo <lmaturo@athensgroup.com> wrote in message
news:39a6c7bb_2@dnews...
> I want to use a JTextArea for output only, and I want the last line I
> append to be visible at the bottom of the JTextArea.  I also want a
> user to be able to scroll-up to look at eariler messages if he needs
> to, otherwise I would just use a JLabel.
>
> I can't find any way to programatically scroll to the bottom after
> I use append to add a line at the bottom.  It seems like it should
> be simple, but apparently it isn't.
>
> -- Larry Maturo
>     lmaturo@athensgroup.com
>
>
>

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