Need Scroll Bar To Go Down On Chat Program

[G_MAN]

Hi, i have inserted a scoll bar like so:

txArea = new TextArea ("", 6, 40, TextArea.SCROLLBARS_VERTICAL_ONLY);

but when a new message is receieved the scrollbar goes up, i would like it to stay at the bottom so it is possible to view the most recent recieved message.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks

[Joe Beam]

I've used JTextPane and it works like you want

JTextPane chatPane = new JTextPane();
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(chatPane);

then you can append lines to it like so

public void appendLine(String line){
			Document doc = chatPane.getDocument();
			int end = doc.getLength();
			line += "\n";

			doc.insertString(end, line, regularStyle);
				
	}