Dear fellow nuns and monks,

I wrote a program using PERL/Tk which processes data. The processing takes some while, so I create status messages and display them in a scrolled textbox. This works very fine, but after some time the amount of status message lines is bigger than the number of lines contained in the text windows - exactly the situation for which a scrolled box is required.

Now, the status messages are still added in the right way, but they are not visible on the screen, because the text box only displays the top portion of the text, whereas to view those lines at the end of the text (and therefore the most recent status messages) one has to scroll manually down the text.

What I would like to have now is that the text window automatically scrolls down, so that always the bottom part of the text is visible, and so the most recent status messages.

How can I program that behaviour?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

With my best greetings and wishes,
Yours

chanklaus

Learning is like swimming against the current - as soon as you stop you'll drift back
(Chinese proverb)

In reply to PERL/Tk Scrolled Textbox: How do I tell it to automatically scroll down? by chanklaus

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