Keeping track of caret position when using scrollbars

Question

Hi!
I have a jtextarea contained in a jscrollpane, To the jtextarea I have added a caretlistener. The textarea displays a lot of log output that will not be editable. When I move the cursor in the textarea I get updates of the caret position. The problem is that when I use the scrollbars the caret position does not move, which might be the right way. But I would like just that, that is to get an update on which line or position that I am currently on.
The problem is that the log output is very large so I have to keep track on where I am in the log file, and only have a portion of the log information from the file in the textarea.
Some pointers, suggestions or examples would really be appreciated.
Best regards
Lars

Answer 1

yes....
you can do using context listeners....
in the start of context listeners read from the file and add to context ... and when the context becomes inactive write to a file....
for that you should use tomcat4.01 ... cause only tat has servlet 2.3 implementaion.
if you are not using tat .. write to the file every 10 minutes .. atleast you will have the latest update of the counts when something crashes......................