Scrolling with images in a jeditorpane

Question

Hi,
I'm really struggling with a jeditor pane. I'm using it to show formatted system messages in the interface i'm writing. In some cases these messages may include an image (usually a reference to an online image using html <img> tags.)
What I want to do is automatically scroll to the bottom of the pane when new text is added. If i use only html formatted text this works fine, but as soon as there is an image in there it doesn't scroll far enough. I believe what's happening is that the image has not finished loading so it scrolls only the length of the placeholder.
This is the code i'm using to scroll:
JEditorPane IMPane;
JScrollPane IMScroller;
//...snip...
private void scrollPaneToBottom(){
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run(){
                if (isAdjusting()){
                    return;
                int height = IMPane.getHeight();
                IMPane.scrollRectToVisible(new Rectangle(0, height - 1,1, height));
    private boolean isAdjusting(){
        JScrollBar scrollBar = IMScroller.getVerticalScrollBar();
        if (scrollBar != null && scrollBar.getValueIsAdjusting()){
            return true;
        return false;
    }I have tried various options including moving the caret but to no avail. Perhaps there is some way i can wait till the page is fully loaded or something like that?
I hope somebody can help me with this - it's driving me bananas.
Thanks in advance,
Crystal

Answer 1

In the future, Swing related questions should be posted in the Swing forum.
I would guess your isAdjusting() method is returning true, so the code never executes.
An easier way to scroll to the bottom is to use:
textComponent.setCaretPosition( textComponent.getDocument().getLength() );