Making a JScrollPane automatically scroll all the way down.

Question

I am trying to implement a JScrollPane with a JTextArea. The JTextArea is being appended to, and I want the JScrollPane to keep scrolling down as more text is added. How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

I found the answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2132444/jscrollpane-and-jlist-auto-scroll

scrollPane.getVerticalScrollBar().addAdjustmentListener(new AdjustmentListener() {  
        public void adjustmentValueChanged(AdjustmentEvent e) {  
            e.getAdjustable().setValue(e.getAdjustable().getMaximum());  
        }
    });

Answer 2

For (what I think is) a simpler answer check out: Text Area Scrolling.