Java / Swing : JTextArea in a JScrollPane, how to prevent auto-scroll?

Question

here\'s a runnable piece of code that shows what my \"problem\" is.

I\'ve got a JTextArea wrapped in a JScrollPane. When I change the text

Answer 1

Answering my own question: I'm not exactly sure this is the best way to solve my issue, but setting the JTextArea's caret using setCaretPosition(0) seems to work fine:

jta.setText( sb.toString() );
jta.jta.setCaretPosition( 0 );