JTextArea is Problematic

[niritbakshi]

Hello.
I have a very weird problem using JTextArea class.
Whenever i put large amount of text in it,
it is getting hugh and controls on my screen.
in TextArea class, it gets an automatic scrollbar.
How to I make the same thing in JTextArea?
please help me...

 

[palbano]

> TextArea class, it gets an automatic scrollbar.
How to I
> make the same thing in JTextArea?

Place the JTextArea inside a JScrollPane.

-pete

 

[niritbakshi]

Can you give me a working example?
I tried
JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane();
scroll.setViewportView(ta);
ta is the JTextArea.
Can you tell me what's wrong?

 

[rotovegasBoy]

i think theres also a JTextPane which provides better functionality than a JTextArea. It is for some more whizzy word processing stuff but it may be better if your text is really huge have a look at

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html

for more details.
Also with you JScrollPane above i've always found this way better
JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(textArea1);
It just seems to work for me I could never get the view port to work but thats probably just me being impatient.

Chris Packham
kriz@i4free.co.nz

A thousand mokeys at a thousand machines, it happened, it got called the internet.

 

[niritbakshi]

Well,
my text may be very hugh, because it is source-code of websites.
Anyway, I searched the API and couldn't find what can I do with this JTextPane.
I'll try later today your tip about JScrollPane.
Wow....
Swing is driving me crazy!!!

 

[niritbakshi]

It doesn't work...
I'll just use TextArea instead of JTextArea.