Richard,
No, you don't have to do it manually. You just need to do two things: obtain a Rectangle that identifies the coordinates and size of a cell that you want to make visible, and then use JViewport's scrollRectToVisible() method to make that cell visible. (The JViewport can be accessed by calling the JScrollPane's getViewport() method). For example, let's suppose that you've
This assumes that you aren't concerned with horizontal scrolling, but even if you are, you can use the same technique with very little additional code.
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Brett Spell
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Professional Java Programming