Java – JScrollPane – auto scroll to bottom?

I've been trying to create a scrolling pane that automatically scrolls down when users add more lines of text to the window I achieved this:

pane.getVerticalScrollBar().addAdjustmentListener(new AdjustmentListener() {
    public void adjustmentValueChanged(AdjustmentEvent e) {
        e.getAdjustable().setValue(e.getAdjustable().getMaximum());  
    }
});

"Pane" is a JScrollPane that holds JList

Unfortunately, the above code pastes the scroll bar to the bottom of the pane (which is what I want), but I can't move the scroll bar from its position (so now it's stuck at the bottom) Is there a simple way to stick the scroll bar to the bottom, but still scroll to other places?

thank you!

Solution

When adding items to JList, you can use the following methods:

list.ensureIndexIsVisible(...)

Where index is the index of the last item in the list