Before anything else there might be some people who already asked this question. However, i am certain that I couldn't google it. Anyway, I have a scrollPane which has a viewPortView of textArea. My question is I would like to show my scrollpane when i insert numerous components inside my textArea. How am i supposed to do this? I have no idea and I'm not that expert with Javax Swing.
Code goes like this:
textArea = new JTextArea();
scrollPane = new JScrollPane();
textArea.setBounds(0,50,520,550);
textArea.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
scrollPane.setBounds(textArea.getBounds());
scrollPane.setViewportView(textArea);
thanks for the help!
My question is I would like to show my scrollpane when i insert numerous components inside my textArea.
A text area displays text, not components. The scrollbars will appear automatically when you actually add text to the text area.
textArea.setBounds(0,50,520,550);
Don't use setBounds. Swing was designed to be used with layout managers. In particular a JScrollPane will only work properly when you use layout managers.
//textArea = new JTextArea();
textArea = new JTextArea(5, 20);
When you create a JtextArea use code like the above. This will allow the text area to determine its own preferred size. Then scrollbars will appear once you add more than 5 rows of text.
Read the section from the Swing tutorial on How to Use Text Areas for more information and working examples. Keep a link to the tutorial handy for all Swing basics.
Just for information,
If you have multiple lines in your text area, the scroll bar is by default scrolled to the end of the text area. To keep the lines in the text area wrapped and scroll bar to the top of the text area, following code would help
textArea .setWrapStyleWord(true);
textArea .setLineWrap(true);
DefaultCaret caret = (DefaultCaret) textArea .getCaret();
caret.setUpdatePolicy(DefaultCaret.NEVER_UPDATE);
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I am using the eclipse GUI drag and drop tool. I have a JTextField in my program which shows content from a line in a textfile. Now, I want to add a horizontal scrollbar underneath the JTextField so that the user can view the content no matter how long it is.
I have the scrollbar and JTextField ready in my JFrame. Can someone provide me with guidance on how to link them please?
Don't try to use a JTextField and a JScrollBar.
Instead, use a JTextArea which is designed to work with a JScrollPane:
JTextArea ta = new JTextArea(1, 10);
ta.getDocument().putProperty("filterNewlines", Boolean.TRUE);
JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane( ta );
sp.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
You need to reserve space for the scrollbar otherwise it will paint over top of the text. The scrollbar will be activated when required.
This "filterNewLines" property just removes newline characters from the text so only a single line of text can be displayed in the text area.
I have a panel inside a JScrollPane and I dynamically populate the panel with components as the data gets received from the service. The panel uses GridBagLayout (but that should be irrelevant). For each record that comes back from the service, I create several components dynamically and append them to the bottom of the panel. Everything works fine, but the problem is that JTextArea that gets created for each record forces the main JScrollPane to scroll down and show the last added JTextArea, as shown here:
I tried to disable everything I could think of to dumb down the JTextArea, but still doesn't help
JTextArea descriptionArea = new JTextArea(project.getDescription().replace("<br>", "\n"));
descriptionArea.setEditable(false);
descriptionArea.setFont(thumbnailLabel.getFont());
descriptionArea.setLineWrap(true);
descriptionArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
descriptionArea.setFocusable(false);
descriptionArea.setRequestFocusEnabled(false);
DefaultCaret caret = (DefaultCaret) descriptionArea.getCaret();
caret.setUpdatePolicy(DefaultCaret.NEVER_UPDATE);
How can I prevent it from moving the scrollbar? I tried replacing JTextArea with JLabel and that works, but I can't get the JLabel to word wrap the text as good. Any ideas would be highly appreciated.
You could do something like:
Point p = srcollPane.getViewport().getViewPostition();
// add the components to the panel in the viewport of the scrollpane
scrollpane.getViewport().setViewPosition( p );
Now the scrollpane should be reset to its original position before you added the components.
I hope I did not miss some duplicate question, I feel like this should be trivial!
Anyway, I have a JTextArea with text in it, with automatic line wraps:
public PleaseResize(){
super();
Container cp = this.getContentPane();
JTextArea area = new JTextArea();
area.setColumns(20);
area.setLineWrap(true);
area.setEditable(false);
area.setWrapStyleWord(true);
area.setText("Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint an curious volume of forgotten lore.");
cp.add(area, BorderLayout.CENTER);
cp.add(new JButton("Hallo"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
this.pack();
}
I want the text area to resize vertically to display the whole text... but it does not. It resizes happily if I choose the line breaks via pushing in \n, but with automatic wrapping, it just remains the size it is.
I somehow feel like I am missing something totally obvious...
Edit: for clarification:
On creation-time, I do not know how many lines the text will have (due to the automatic linebreaks happening). I am receiving Text via an XML-file, and it can vary between 0 and about 30 lines after wrapping. I have the vertical space to display everything, but I do not want to scroll or to have a huge, white area when there is no or only a little text to display.
Edit 2:
After rephrasing the question, they key to the problem I was facing was apparently not resizing the JTextArea, but making sure the dialog knows how big it is!
So, here is the link back to the solution I ended up using: An automatic resizing Text above a button?
You need to wrap JTeatArea with JScrollPane like next new JScrollPane(area); and then add JScrollPane to your JFrame.
Also you create JTextArea with empty constructor, use JTextArea(int rows, int cols) to specify count of rows and columns.
So I've been searching around and for the life of my cannot figure out how to correctly do this. I simply have a small text area and want to be able to scroll through it. I've been told it's as easy as adding the TextArea to a ScrollPane, but it appears to be more complicated than that. Here's the gist of my code:
Skin defaultSkin = newSkin(DEFAULT_SKIN_FILEPATH +"uiskin.atlas", DEFAULT_SKIN_FILEPATH
+"uiskin.json");
TextArea textArea = new TextArea(levelLoader.getCodeSnippet(), defaultSkin);
ScrollPane pane = new ScrollPane(textArea, defaultSkin);
pane.setForceScroll(false, true);
pane.setFlickScroll(false);
pane.setOverscroll(false, true);
pane.setBounds(0f, 20f, game.getWindowWidth(), 300f);
gui.addActor(pane);
Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(gui);
setIsCreated(true);
levelLoader.getCodeSnippet() returns a string containing a multi-line piece of text from a .txt. The TextArea appears in the game window, and the multi-lined text also appears. However, I can only scroll through the text with the arrow keys. I forced the scrollbar to display itself, but it occupies the entire right side of the window like this:
http://s27.postimg.org/vqws36k77/pic.png
It will not scroll and thinks there are not multiple lines to scroll through even though there are evident by scrolling through with the arrow keys. I've also tried making the textArea larger than the scrollPane, but might have done it incorrectly. What am I doing wrong here?
Update: I've tried both placing the ScrollPane inside of a table and setting the cell size of the table. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
This is not best solution. I guess it is LIBGDX update layout bug.
This is workaround solution that works for me:
Set pref. rows manually and update scroll layout, when the number of the rows is changed.
textArea.setPrefRows(numberOfScrollLines);
//numberOfScrollLines = text.split("\n").length
pane.layout();
Here is a textarea I have put in my program using netbeans. The first image shows what the textarea looks like when I run the program. The second image is show the textarea after I press a button that adds about 50 "Hello world" strings to the text area - only the first 6 get shown. I need the textarea's height to dynamically increase to fit all these strings. Anyone know how to do it?
Edit: I dont want scrollbars so using a JScrollPane is not an option.
I wouldn't use JTextArea for anything except prototyping. It has the bitter functionality of notepad. But it's up to you.
I would use a JEditorPane or JTextPane. I know you can't size it based on character size but that's for the best. For word wrap, you can do setContentType("text/html"); and wrap the text in <'p><'/p> tags.
(Note you still use JScrollPane for scrolling. In fact, the scroll pane works for any component)
See the differences: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/editorpane.html
Try this http://java-sl.com/tip_text_height_measuring.html
I haven't tried it with JTextArea but suppose it should work
Include the JTextArea inside a JScrollPane
JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();
JScrollPane scrollArea = new JScrollPane(textArea);
This will dynamically change the text area based on if scrolling is needed or not