javaswing

How to adjust position of scroll in the scrollpane?


I have created JTextpane and inserted components like Jtextarea inside the JTextpane. The vertical scrollbar of the Jscrollpane of the JTextpane is automatically set to bottom when I insert new components in that JTextpane. But I want to keep it to be set to the top position. How can I do this?


Solution

  • Here's a utility class I use. It can be used to scroll to the top, bottom, left, right or horizonatal / vertical center of a JScrollPane.

    public final class ScrollUtil {
        public static final int NONE = 0, TOP = 1, VCENTER = 2, BOTTOM = 4, LEFT = 8, HCENTER = 16, RIGHT = 32;
        private static final int OFFSET = 100; // Required for hack (see below).
    
        private ScrollUtil() {
        }
    
        /**
         * Scroll to specified location.  e.g. <tt>scroll(component, BOTTOM);</tt>.
         *
         * @param c JComponent to scroll.
         * @param part Location to scroll to.  Should be a bit-wise OR of one or moe of the values:
         * NONE, TOP, VCENTER, BOTTOM, LEFT, HCENTER, RIGHT.
         */
        public static void scroll(JComponent c, int part) {
            scroll(c, part & (LEFT|HCENTER|RIGHT), part & (TOP|VCENTER|BOTTOM));
        }
    
        /**
         * Scroll to specified location.  e.g. <tt>scroll(component, LEFT, BOTTOM);</tt>.
         *
         * @param c JComponent to scroll.
         * @param horizontal Horizontal location.  Should take the value: LEFT, HCENTER or RIGHT.
         * @param vertical Vertical location.  Should take the value: TOP, VCENTER or BOTTOM.
         */
        public static void scroll(JComponent c, int horizontal, int vertical) {
            Rectangle visible = c.getVisibleRect();
            Rectangle bounds = c.getBounds();
    
            switch (vertical) {
                case TOP:     visible.y = 0; break;
                case VCENTER: visible.y = (bounds.height - visible.height) / 2; break;
                case BOTTOM:  visible.y = bounds.height - visible.height + OFFSET; break;
            }
    
            switch (horizontal) {
                case LEFT:    visible.x = 0; break;
                case HCENTER: visible.x = (bounds.width - visible.width) / 2; break;
                case RIGHT:   visible.x = bounds.width - visible.width + OFFSET; break;
            }
    
            // When scrolling to bottom or right of viewport, add an OFFSET value.
            // This is because without this certain components (e.g. JTable) would
            // not scroll right to the bottom (presumably the bounds calculation
            // doesn't take the table header into account.  It doesn't matter if
            // OFFSET is a huge value (e.g. 10000) - the scrollRectToVisible method
            // still works correctly.
    
            c.scrollRectToVisible(visible);
        }
    }