Add the property "Enable auto-scrolling" to indicators which have a scroll option

Question

It would be nice if controls/indicators that had a scroll option (most useful for vertical scroll) would have the ability to support automatic scrolling. This is useful for trace windows or long tables which are continually getting updates. At present we need to set the scroll position ourselves for every update.

Answer 1

Ray: I think Mark is asking for a run-time feature, not an edit-time feature, such that if you have the scrollbar already visible and new text is written to the indicator that the text would automatically scroll to some position within the string.
Myself, I'm a strong fan of the behavior that I see in Visual Studio compiler log windows -- if the user has positioned the scroll thumb at the very bottom, when new text is added, the scroll thumb continues to stick to the bottom (thus always showing the tail of the log). But if I scroll up in the log, then new text is added keeping the scroll thumb in the same relative position so that I can actually read an interesting part of the log while the log continues to be updated. It's occassionally tricky to get the thumb back to the bottom of the log if the log is being updated very quickly, but overall, it's a system that works very well.