[SOLVED] Last line in JTextArea wont display

[Chris.Brown.SPE]

I have a JTextArea that is displaying decoded signals that are stored in a file. The file is updated periodically during the execution of the program. I fire periodic updates to the textarea, but every time the last line of the file is not shown. If i do a copy/paste to notepad the last line shows, or if i copy the text from the textarea to another textarea it shows up just fine. Any idea what would cause this or any kind of work around? I tried just keeping the textarea in the background and copying the contents to a new one that is visible, but the data in this textarea can get infinitely large and doubling that would be unfavorable.

Thanks,
Chris

[Eranga]

Are you sure that not misses the last line when you extract/read data from the file?

[Chris.Brown.SPE]

That is the thing that i am currently checking. We wrote the underlying document structure and there may be an error in getting the length of the file. I was just wondering if anyone has heard of this issue where it wouldn't be my boss's fault.

[Chris.Brown.SPE]

Underlying structure didn't increase the document length in the statement

If(isLast()){
break;
}

All fixed.

[Eranga]

Did you read line-by-line of the file? If so, why don't you use readLine() method?

[Chris.Brown.SPE]

The project that i am on reads signals from a semi truck and translates the binary to hex then to english. It saves all of the signals in a text area that is backed up by a text document. These signals come across the wire at about 100 per second making this file grow very fast. We rewrote the document class so that we could cache lines and find which one is closest to the line we want then work from there. Reading an 8 gig file line by line to find one line is not very efficient. But in the function getLength() the counter was incremented for each line, but was never incremented for the last line before the break. Two and a half weeks of work to find that one in the middle of a 15 function stack trace. I'm just glad that hell is over. On to the next bug...