[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Getting scroll pane to display bottom of tex

[eclipse@xxxxxxxxx (Peter Toye)]

In article <dj2q3o$p3s$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, yaofahua@xxxxxxxxxxx (Jack 
Yao) wrote:

> *From:* Jack Yao <yaofahua@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Date:* Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:34:20 +0800
> 
> Peter Toye wrote:
> > I'm trying to get JTextArea in a JSCrollPane to display the latest 
> > text after I use append. Whatever I do it seems to scroll up to the 
> > top of the area, which isn't very useful. Thanks in advance for any 
> > help.
> > 
> > The code I've got (very much cut down of course is:
> > 
> > 	JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();
> > 	JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(textArea);
> > 	.
> > 	.
> > 	.
> > 	textArea.append("various bits of data\n");
> > 	scrollPane.scrollRectToVisible(new Rectangle(0,textArea.getHeight
> > ()-scrollPane.getHeight(),
> > 	  scrollPane.getWidth(),scrollPane.getHeight()));
> > 		
> > 	scrollPane.validate();
> > 	
> > Peter
> 
> Hope this can help you :
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/scrollpane.ht
> ml
> -- 
> JACK YAO, Beijing, China
> 
Thanks, Jack.

I've already read this and I thought that I was doing what it told me to. 
That's why I'm a bit puzzled.

Peter