I'm not sure about a textarea.
But you can do this using a ScrollPanel.
You can add a FlowPanel to your ScrollPanel.
All your text messages can be Label Widgets that you Add to your Flow
Panel.
After adding the Label Widget you can call:
scrollPanel.scrollToBottom();
Or...
scrollPanel.ensureVisible(someWidget)
I am doing something similar with a scrollable form, if there is a
data entry error, I can scroll to the field in error and display it to
the user.
Thanks,
Mike.
That will force the
On Aug 20, 3:53 am, Aximilli302 <aximilli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I am trying to make a text area scroll. I am trying to simulate a type
> of chat room envirement, where the user types into a text box, presses
> enter, then the text apears into a read only text area, with the text
> aera auto scrolling to the bottom. Is there a way to make the read
> only text area scroll?
>
> Here is some of my code.
>
> private TextBox text = new TextBox();
> private Button enter = new Button("Enter");
> private TextArea textArea = new TextArea();
>
> textArea.setReadOnly(true);
> textArea.setVisibleLines(5);
>
> text.addKeyPressHandler(new KeyPressHandler){
> public void onKeyPress(KeyPressEvent event) {
> if (event.getCharCode() == KeyCodes.KEY_ENTER) {
> enterClicked();
> }
> }
> });
>
> private void enterClicked(){
> String previousText = textArea.getText();
> String newText = previousText + "\n" + text.getText();
> textArea.setText(newText);
> text.setText("");
> text.setFocus(true);
> }
>
> Any help would be awesome. Thanks!
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