Re: Scrolling/keeping textArea down

[Lee <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/23/25 11:34 AM, Admin wrote:
> Ok, so I just tested this in a new clean app.
>
>
> I created a textArea filled with "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy" lines so that the right (and only) scrollbar would 
> be, like, one-third of all text
>
>
> Then I created a button:
>
>
> Public Sub Button1_Click()
>
>    TextArea1.Insert(" ")
>    TextArea1.EnsureVisible
>
> End
>
>
> If I just press the button, nothing happens.
>
> If I manually place a cursor in the bottom of a textArea and scroll it back up and then press a button, sure enough it scrolls 
> right down.
>
> So basically .Insert does not place a cursor to the end of the text in a textArea where it inserts.

When I add text to a TextArea with either .Insert() or the '&=' operator, I don't even need to call .EnsureVisible(). The text 
is scrolled to the bottom as needed.

Are you using Qt or GTK?


And, BTW, TextArea.Length apparently does indeed take UTF-8 characters into account. I did a small test, and after adding UTF-8 
text to a TextArea multiple times, TextArea.Length and TextArea.Pos have the same value. So, there should be no need to set .Pos 
explicitly prior to calling .EnsureVisible().


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Lee

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