How to dynamicly scroll a text area?

Hi,
i put my JTextArea on top of a JScrollPane.
i want to set the JScrollPane scroll to the end of the JTextArea everytime i do textArea.append(someString);
is there an easy way of doing this? or i have to program the logic?
Thanks.

This question has probably been asked a hundred times. The default behaviour is for the textare to scroll automatically if the following conditions are met:
a) the caret is at the end of the document
b) the append is done from the event thread
If you want more adice then try searching the forum. Using keywords "jtextarea scrolling" would be a good place to start.

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