Jtextarea stays blank when typing in it - Please help!

[rvy2k]

Hi all,

When I try to type into a Jtextarea, no text appears at all. The area stays blank.
I know it is there because I did a select all + copy, then pasted it into notepad and it was there.
I tried revalidate() and repaint() but it didnot work.

Anybody had the same problem?

Thanks!

 

[LeonTang]

Did you set the JTextArea to uneditable/unabled through the method setEditable(false)/setEnabled(false)? If you didn't and your JTextArea is in a JPanel, try using updateUI() in the JPanel.

There should be no other reasons as for why it will not work..