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KryptoS

KryptoS

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Feb 7, 2001
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Hello,

I have a textarea with scrollbars. Now I wanted to disable the textarea buth then the scrollbars are also disabled. Now I'm searching for something so that I can't wright in the textarea and where the scrollbars still works!!!

thanx
 
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Are you using Swing? Swing provides for that type of behavior much more than plain AWT.

-pete
 
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Normally I use AWT, but I can also use Swing if I have too ...
 
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Hi. I believe you can do what you want by setting your TextArea as not being editable. Whereas it will show you the text that is already there, but the user cannot type in it, and the scrollbars still function.
Any class derived from TextComponent should have this functionality.

textarea.setEditable( false );


hope this helps.

 
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