Chat window autoscroll lockes scrollbar at buttom

[ZacK.YoveL]

Hi, I'm writing an instant chat client (for practice), I use netbeans 6.8 on ubuntu 10.04.

My chat window contains a JTextPane enclosed in a JScrollBar, to get auto adjustment of the vertical scrollbar I use the following code:

jScrollPane1.getVerticalScrollBar().addAdjustmentListener(new AdjustmentListener(){

            public void adjustmentValueChanged(AdjustmentEvent e) {
                e.getAdjustable().setValue(e.getAdjustable().getMaximum());
            }
        });

It works, but it forces the scrollpane to the buttom - can't go up again to see it.
I did see many solutions for this problem, but they all seem to go around and adjust the visible area according to the textPane/textarea, creating ton of new problems on the way. Adjusting the visible area by the scrollbar of the scrollpane should be the right way to do it, but I can't find a way to stop it from forcing thw visible area down.

Doe's anyone know a solution for that?

[camickr]

Check out the code and discussion in Swing - JTextPane autoscroll down / stop scroll on choose

[ZacK.YoveL]

It will take me some time to learn it but still thanks.