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

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From: Nikolaos Giannopoulos
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 00:00

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A real easy way is:

      jTextArea1.moveCaretPosition(0);

--Nikolaos


Larry Maturo wrote:

> 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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