How do you programmatically move the caret of a Flex TextArea to the end?

Question

I\'m trying to move the caret in a Flex TextArea to the end after appending some text from my code. I\'ve looked through the reference documentation for TextArea and its und

Answer 1

@Paul Stewart verticalScrollPosition is a property not a method so you have to use it similar to a field, like:

var newPosition:NUmber = 1;
textArea.verticalScrollPosition = newPosition;

The advantage of using it over a selectionBeginIndex/selectionEndIndex is there you do not have to set a foucus.