Hi,
I am trying to write a simple application. One part of the Application is
a chat server. For this server the incomming text should be displayed on a
JTextPane. Then I want to check if the TextArea was scrolled down to the
bottom and if that is the case I want to have it automatically scroll down
to the new bottom. So far I am only trying to always get it to scroll
down. Here is what I tried:

/* field is the textField, and Bar is the associated Scrollbar */
field.setText(field.getText() + "\n" + text);
int max = bar.getMaximum();
bar.setValue(max);

However this does not seem to work. It sometimes does no scrolling at all,
sometimes it scrolls down a few lines, but not all the way to the bottom,
and some rare times it even put the bar back to the beginning of the text.
Can you tell me what I am doing wrong, and what I have to do to get what I
want?

Thanks for your help,
  Till