Keeping a field scroll at the bottom as lines come in

[Dave Cragg]

At 8:25 pm +0000 25/1/04, Rob Beynon wrote:
>Greetings, My first post, and a naive one, I suspect..
>
>I am using an interactive mode to send a line of text to the end of a
>field ('after') which is visible. Then, as the field fills, it doesn't
>scroll to show the last line, it just moves the thumb upwards.
>
>I'd really like to see the last line entered, irrespective of the
>length of the field. Can this be done?

put <whatever> after field "myField"
set the scroll of field "myField" to the formattedHeight of field "myField"

It's not a very elegant solution, but as the formattedHeight will be 
always larger than the maximum scroll value,  it'll do the job.

Dave