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 thi

Answer 1

If you are constantly writing data to it you could use:

textArea.setCaretPosition(textArea.getDocument().getLength());

just after you add the new data.

This would automatically scroll all the way down the JScorllPane.