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I am trying to get a scroll bar to go to the lowest position possible. I am using a chat program and it bothers me that I have to scroll down to see new messages! I googled around and found lots of answers for flash, and other languages but nothing that helped me !

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Is your chat window in Java? If so is your GUI written in swing or awt? Perhaps some code to describe how you construct your window would help...
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When I made a chat application I had the same problem. If you had googled a little harder you could have found this solution.
java Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. //incoming is the JTextField that displays the conversation
  2. //doc is a previously initialized Document object. 
  3. doc = incoming.getDocument();
  4. incoming.setCaretPosition(doc.getLength()-1);
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Sorry guys, I was adding the textArea wrong, thats why it wasn't working.

Original Code:
java Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. add(textArea, borderLayout.NORTH);

Correct Code:
Java Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. add(scroller, borderLayout.NORTH);

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