OK, my internet connection came back, and jGuru provided the answer:
receivedTA.scrollRectToVisible(new Rectangle(0,
receivedTA.getHeight() - 2, 1, 1));
Thanks,
Doug
>I have a JTextArea in a JScrollPane. It's not editable and used only for a
>running log (i.e. periodically call textarea.append).
>
>However, if I ever scroll up the log, appends no longer scroll it all the
>way down again.
>
>I was trying to figure out a call such as:
>
>textarea.append("some text");
>textarea.scrollToBottom();
>// or maybe scrollpane.scrollToBottom();
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